Showing posts with the label Geology

Itacolumite: The Flexible Rock

Oct 6, 2021

Ever seen a piece of rock bend? Itacolumite is unique kind of sandstone that does when cut into thin strips. If a foot-long piece, a few cen...

Gilbert Hill: Mumbai’s Forgotten 66 Million Years Old Heritage

May 28, 2019

Concrete buildings aren’t the only thing that rises vertically in the metropolis of Mumbai, India’s most populous city. In a suburb, north ...

Salt Domes And Salt Glaciers of Iran

Mar 12, 2019

Million of years ago, the Persian Gulf was a much larger body of water than it is today, inundating large sections of the Arabian peninsula...

Michigan’s Massive Copper Boulders

Oct 23, 2018

In the early 17th century, fur traders traversing Lake Superior in North America heard tales of a fabulous boulder lying on the banks of the...

The Domes of Fabedougou

Jul 24, 2018

These weathered rocks in the village of Fabedougou, near Banfora, in south-western Burkina Faso resemble the sandstone towers of Bungle Bung...

Landscape Agate: These Silica Rocks Resemble Beautiful Natural Scenes

Sep 25, 2015

Agate is a crystalized form of silica, made up primarily of chalcedony, a type of quartz that is composed of very fine intergrowths of the m...

Pele’s Hair And Pele’s Tears

Sep 15, 2015

Pele's hair are naturally occurring fine fibers of volcanic glass that form when hot molten lava is thrown into the air during explosive...