Some rockery - deformed/folded micaceous psammite and amphibolite and hornblende schist (age indeterminate).

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I bought my nephew an advent calendar that has a different rock in it for each day and a description about the rock. (He's 7). For Christmas he is getting a National Geographic Collection of over 300 specimens of rock with a magnifying glass and a book about them.

I am pretty sure his father is going to curse me by name the first time he steps barefoot on one of those little rocks in the house. ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿ˜˜

But the kid likes rocks.

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Bandera Crater is a large cinder cone that erupted approximately 10,000 years ago, creating a 23-mile lava flow & a lava tube system that includes an ice cave. The ice cave is a collapsed lava tube with natural, perpetual ice, the oldest layers of which are over 3,400 years old.

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New how-to article now up.๐Ÿ“

"Sanding and Polishing Meteorites by Hand" โ˜„๏ธ ๐Ÿชจ ๐Ÿ–๏ธ

How to improve the appearance and value of meteorite slices and endcuts using commonly available sandpaper and elbow grease. ๐Ÿ’ฐ ๐Ÿ’ช

๐Ÿ”— Link : https://galactic-stone.com/galactic-stone-archive/sanding-and-polishing-meteorites-by-hand/

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Sanding and Polishing Meteorites by Hand

How to sand and polish your meteorites to improve their appearance and value.

Galactic Stone & Ironworks

I wonder if anyone can help me identify this rock type, which is a very pale, cream-white layer in-between some harder rock. It lies pretty much at the interface between Ogwen and Marchlyn silt/mudstones on the western flanks of Cwm Pennant (eastern Nantlle ridge).

As it is in the water, it's clearly very soft and easily eroded. I could dig into it with a fingernail quite easily, broadly like dried-out clay. ๐Ÿ™

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