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The Rocks Know › Mineral Monday: Trona
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. Monday, January 13, 2014. It’s just another Mineral Monday! This week our mineral is trona, which sounds more like a video game character than a mineral. This is one of those minerals that isn’t much to look at, but it makes up for it’s general lack of sparkle and color with it’s usefulness. Trona is the more common name […]. Filed in Mineral Monday. Minerals in Dangerous Places. Earth Science Picture of the Day. Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs.
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The Rocks Know › Mineral Monday: Trona
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. It’s just another Mineral Monday! This week our mineral is trona, which sounds more like a video game character than a mineral. This is one of those minerals that isn’t much to look at, but it makes up for it’s general lack of sparkle and color with it’s usefulness. Trona is the more common name for trisodium hydrogendicarbonate dihydrate. You can understand why they’ve shortened that-it’s a mouthful. It’s an evaporite. There’s even a town in California...
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The Rocks Know › The Bornite Identity
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. Monday, December 30, 2013. Movie puns are obviously the best way to start the week. Well, second best. The best way to kick off this week is Mineral Monday. Bornite is commonly known as Peacock ore, for obvious reasons. The bright iridescence of Bornite (Cu5FeS4) is actually a tarnish on the surface of the mineral. If you cut into […]. Minerals in Dangerous Places. Earth Science Picture of the Day. Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs.
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The Rocks Know › Portfolio
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. For More, Please Visit www.MaryBethGriggs.com. A personal account of a relative’s battle with MRSA. Published on Scienceline. Forest for the Trees. How pathogens are threatening the health of American trees and forests. Published on Scienceline. Antarctica Tourism Snowballs, but Is It Helping or Harming the Last Place on Earth? Published on Scientific American. Rehabilitating New York’s Wildlife. Smithsonian Institution’s Smart News. Who Owns the North Pole.
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The Rocks Know › Mineral Monday: Trona
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. Monday, January 13, 2014. It’s just another Mineral Monday! This week our mineral is trona, which sounds more like a video game character than a mineral. This is one of those minerals that isn’t much to look at, but it makes up for it’s general lack of sparkle and color with it’s usefulness. Trona is the more common name […]. Filed in Mineral Monday. Minerals in Dangerous Places. Earth Science Picture of the Day. Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs.
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The Rocks Know › Ancient Artifacts, Modern Jobs
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. Ancient Artifacts, Modern Jobs. Thursday, January 16, 2014. This is just a quick post, but if you’ve got time you should check out Rebecca Onion’s latest piece on Slate. She’s got beautiful images from the exhibit Our Work: Modern Jobs Ancient Origins, at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago. People from a Richard Scarry assortment of professions (taxi driver, police officer, realtor, etc) are […]. Comments Off on Ancient Artifacts, Modern Jobs.
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The Rocks Know › Mineral Monday: Trona
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. Monday, January 13, 2014. It’s just another Mineral Monday! This week our mineral is trona, which sounds more like a video game character than a mineral. This is one of those minerals that isn’t much to look at, but it makes up for it’s general lack of sparkle and color with it’s usefulness. Trona is the more common name […]. Filed in Mineral Monday. Monday, December 30, 2013. Topical Tuesday: Archaeology and Geology News. Tuesday, April 9, 2013. If you’re st...
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The Rocks Know › Glossary
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. So this page is a little blank now, but it will have many more entries soon. I promise. 8211; The study of past cultures through their material remains. One who studies the Antiquities. Usually involved a good grasp of the classic languages, and a passion for adventure and collecting stuff. The study of the Earth, it’s processes and it’s history. 8211; Symbol: Au Atomic number: 79 It has a high value placed on it by many societies around the world. Widely con...
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The Rocks Know › Ancient Artifacts, Modern Jobs
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. Ancient Artifacts, Modern Jobs. Thursday, January 16, 2014. This is just a quick post, but if you’ve got time you should check out Rebecca Onion’s latest piece on Slate. She’s got beautiful images from the exhibit Our Work: Modern Jobs Ancient Origins, at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago. People from a Richard Scarry assortment of professions (taxi driver, police officer, realtor, etc) are […]. Comments Off on Ancient Artifacts, Modern Jobs.
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The Rocks Know › History
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Geology, Archaeology, and more Awesome stuff. Monday, December 30, 2013. Movie puns are obviously the best way to start the week. Well, second best. The best way to kick off this week is Mineral Monday. Bornite is commonly known as Peacock ore, for obvious reasons. The bright iridescence of Bornite (Cu5FeS4) is actually a tarnish on the surface of the mineral. If you cut into […]. Also filed in Geology. Momentous Discoveries: Impacts and Gene Shoemaker. Monday, September 30, 2013. Tuesday, April 16, 2013.