ROCK & GEM FIELD GUIDE : Trancas Geodes

Editor’s Letter

October is such a fun month with everything

WEBB REVEALS Just How Tiny Our Spot in the Universe

The culmination of a 30-year collaboration among NASA,

The Unexpectedly Loud Sound of Deep -Sea Mining

Although buffered from human ears by leagues of

The Ultimate Ancestor of You and Me?

It is 520 million years old and it

War Disrupts Paleontology

Per a news report by Freda Kreier for

To Seek Climate Data, Dig into Tropical Mud

While many scientists don down vests and brave

Gem Show Dealers, Beware!

It was on its way from San Francisco

Earth Resources: When Is Oil from the Sea too Much?

Per two articles in a recent issue of

The First Wildfire on Earth?

Wildfires are nothing new, but who knew they

IT’S BACK TO THE FUTURE in Examining Earth’s Climate

A report in the journal Science provides further

Earth’s Inner Core Sparks New Speculation

Scientists have long proposed Earth is like a

Did Dead Dinos Lead to Massive Fruit?

When dinos died, fruit grew wide. At least,

The Short Story of a Long Neck

The giraffe is one strange-looking critter. What’s up

HANDLE with CARE!

Radioactive Rocks and Minerals

DIGGING FOR DINOSAURS

Exploring Montana’s Dinosaur Trail

Memento Mori

HERKIMER DIAMONDS & CRYSTAL HEAD VODKA

Weird and Wonderful Quartz Formations

Quartz crystals grow when atoms of silica and

What to Cut

SERAPHINITE Seraphinite is a form of clinochlore, a

ROCK & GEM BUSINESS PROFILE : DOWN TO EARTH OPALS

SPONSORED BY DOWN TO EARTH OPALS It’s hard

HOW TO CARVE A PATTERN ON A CAB

Carving a pattern on the front of the

THE OTHER STONEHENGES…

“Stonehenge” By rupjones is licensed under CC BY-ND

DON’T GET FOOLED WHILE GOLD PANNING

A Guide to Know What’s What

CHOOSING THE RIGHT CRYSTAL FOR YOUR SUN SIGN

Getty Images / Westend61 Although they come from

HALITE: PASS THE SALT

We’ve all said “pass the salt” at the

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Desert Animals

In warm weather, rattlesnakes can be found everywhere

FLUORITE

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