Bazsites.com Rocks And Minerals
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On the Web
- The Rock, Mineral, and Fossil Reference - Contains over 100 pictures of minerals, rocks and fossils, as well as information about classification, identification, the Science Olympiad Rocks and Minerals event and related topics.
- Rain City Rocks - Web-based rock and mineral retail shop. Offers rock and mineral items ranging from 21 pound smoke quartz crystals to rough rock for tumbling.
- Mineral 1.0 - An online rock and mineral quiz/test, as well as a browsable online mineral database with descriptions and pictures.
- El Dorado County Mineral and Gem Society - This society located in Placerville, California was founded in January 1949 to learn about and share interests in rocks, minerals, fossils, earth sciences, and the lapidary arts, with monthly meetings, a junior program, field trips, lapidary classes, and an annual rock and gem show and hosts the county fair mineral displays.
- Minerals of Australia and New Zealand - Information about the minerals and mineral locations in Australia and New Zealand.
- The Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom - An interactive reference guide to rocks, minerals, and gemstones.
- Web Mineral - Extensive mineral database containing crystallography, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, Dana classification, Strunz classification, mineral name origins, mineral locality information, and alphabetical listing of all known valid mineral species.
- The Rock and Gem Store - Offers rocks, minerals, Mexican products, and related material.
- Rock Site - Specializes in offering mineral specimens from the UK.
- Once-A-Rock Inc. - Newfoundland site for rocks, minerals, fossils, and lapidary material.
Wikipedia Articles
- Cleavage (geology) - Cleavage, in geology and related disciplines, is the tendency of some minerals, or rocks, to break along flat, smooth lines. It is one standard parameter used to describe specific rocks or minerals.
- Weathering - Weathering is the decomposition of rocks, soils and their minerals through direct contact with the Earth's atmosphere. Weathering occurs in situ, or "with no movement", and thus should not to be confused with erosion, which involves the movement and disintegration of rocks and minerals by processes such as water, ice, wind and gravity.
- List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, stones and gemstones - ==State geological symbols==
- Earth materials - Earth materials is a general term that includes rocks and materials that are not by definition rocks but are commonly regarded as rocks. Examples of the latter are coal and volcanic glass, which are not composed of minerals.
- Ultramafic rock - Ultramafic (or ultrabasic) rocks are igneous and meta-igneous rocks with very low silica content (less than 45%), generally >18% MgO, high FeO, low potassium, and are composed of usually greater than 90% mafic minerals (dark colored, high magnesium and iron content). The Earth's mantle is considered to be composed of ultramafic rocks.