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Rocks and Stuff worth looking into.

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  1. This is the flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery during her decommissioning process in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF). Several components are missing as part of that process including panels of switches, closed circuit TV (CCTV) screens, and storage lockers. During flight, the commander sat in the seat on...

  2. Quartz sand from the passive continental margin of the east coast of the U.S. The petri dish is 9 cm in diameter. Image made as part of the MAGIC project (Mid-Atlantic Geo-Imagery Collection) using Northern Virginia Community College's gigamacro rig, as seen here: gigamacro.com/gigapixel-macro-imaging-sy Will open in a new tab or window...

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  3. Non-welded rhyolitic pyroclastics from the F2 ashfall layer of the Bishop Tuff. Age: 760 Ka. The petri dish is 9 cm in diameter. Image made as part of the MAGIC project (Mid-Atlantic Geo-Imagery Collection) using Northern Virginia Community College's gigamacro rig, as seen here: gigamacro.com/gigapixel-m Will open in a new tab or window...

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  4. This great little anticline is one of several accessable from the Veach Gap trail in George Washington National Forest, Fort Valley, Virginia. The rocks are from the Massanutten formation, a Silurian quartz arenite to quartzite. The folds seen here are parasitic folds which relate to the larger Massanutten Synclinorium...

  5. The Commonwealth of Virginia's Department of Geology and Mineral Resources has their offices in Charlottesville, Virginia. Outside their building is an exceptional collection of large rock samples from across the state. Samples include igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks from all five physiographic provinces, a...

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  6. This insect specimen drawer exemplifies the diversity of forms displayed by species in the four largest insect orders: Coleoptera (beetles & weevils), Hymenoptera (wasps, bees & ants), Lepidoptera (moths & butterflies), and Diptera (true flies). Together these orders comprise over 800,000 species, the major...

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  7. Facing West, looking down the Main Street Mall in Charlottesville VA, Thursday June 11th 5th NE And Main Streets look3.org Will open in a new tab or window

  8. This is a thin section of dunite, a rock made up almost entirely of the mineral olivine, as seen in cross-polarized light through a Leica Z6 APO Macroscope. There is a band of black mineral grains to the left of center of the image that is a cumulate layer of the mineral chromite - in the magma chamber from which thes...

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  9. This 360-degree view, called the "McMurdo" panorama, comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. From April through October 2006, Spirit has stayed on a small hill known as "Low Ridge." There, the rover's solar panels are tilted toward the sun to maintain enough solar power for Spi...

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  10. A ~100 Ma intrusive igneous rock that is characteristic of Cretaceous granitoids of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. How many minerals can you identify?

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