Minerals

Just couldn't resist ;)

Here we have some garnet:



And all this slightly blue-green stuff is apatite - the same mineral your teeth are made of:



The dark bluegreen grains are most likely Winchite:



So that's the place where the apatite is mined:

Russian roads ...

you gotta love them ;)
and this is good condition - really ...



This is what we call a banded iron formation, not that spectacular when it's not red though:


Here is a closer view of the rock ... some parts are red = oxidized ... (geologist noob mistake though - THERE IS NO SCALE!!!!!)



And here we have a spinifex texture ... I just found out that spinifex is also a genus of coastal grasses
(note: there is a shiny coin as scale):



Finally this is the giant's ass print ... well just another of those fluffy pillow lavas:

Still Finland from last summer

Magnetite :D





And some lakes ;)

A lake in Russia ...

Just some more impressions of the Karelian field trip:

The art of Geology II

This is what geologist call an eclogite one of my favourite rocks.
And the one on this picture is claimed to be the oldest found on earth - just imagine that!

White Sea - second part

Unfortunately it wasn't the nicest day when we were supposed to take boats out to some islands to see some very old rocks. It was raining and quite cold and not even the rain gear kept us completely dry so in the end everybody was freezing and we could just barely listen to the explanations of the russian geologist who had his private translator.
It is amazing that even at such a remote place, you can find some people and I also added a picture of the small village at the boarder of the White Sea.

The art of Geology I

That's what geologists call pillow lava ;) Soft and fluffy ;)