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Macro Mondays, theme: "Z"/"Zed"
A bronze Dhokra elephant from India, placed inside a quartz geode (amethyst), photographed with a Nikon Z - a "triple Z".
4-image focus stack.
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carbon covering on SL1200 MK2
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Amethyst
Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz.
The name comes from the Koine Greek ἀμέθυστος amethystos from ἀ- a-, "not" and μεθύσκω methysko / μεθύω methyo, "intoxicate", a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness. The ancient Greeks wore amethyst and carved drinking vessels from it in the belief that it would prevent intoxication.
Amethyst is a semiprecious stone often used in jewelry and is the traditional birthstone for February.
[Source: wikipedia]
Local RMRL821116, commonly known as the "Night Gas", rolls across Quartz Creek on MRL's 4th Subdivision.
Nikon F3, Ilford HP5
Another from my mineral collection is this quartz. When small crystals grow in this sugar-like formation along the main 'stems' it is known as druzy, hence druzy quartz. Lead inclusions can also be seen as flecks in the crystals.
This specimen nicknamed “The Rabbit Ears” is elbaite (a member of the tourmaline group), found in 1972 at the Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, California. This 24 cm example is the finest of the 33 major specimens recovered and is considered the finest North American tourmaline. The crystals are undamaged and grow from quartz crystal and are accompanied by smaller tourmaline crystals.
My second choice for Macro Mondays but I thought 'misfit' could be interpreted here as 'essential component'?!
Just playing and posted in
"Fun and Happiness"
Quartz terminations. Sorry I don"t have the id. Have had this collection for decades. Geologist needed... Any help appreciated.
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1437.0 carat Star Rose Quartz specimen from Madagascar. In the Gem and Mineral collection at HMNS. It goes by the name of the Love Stone because it sends off strong vibrations of love, happiness, warmth, and emotional health. It possesses energy related to the heart chakra.
Your vision connects you to the earth and all that it contains. To stop and gaze upon the simplicity and complexity of this world is to merge with it, not to the extent of losing your identity in that merging of a moment in time, but to recognise that in the carbons and atoms of all creation, there is an interconnected life.
The King Stone at Garry Beach, with its crystal heart of quartz, is one of these natural monuments which seem to reflect that reciprocity of man and nature. We gaze upon it, touch it and feel its touch upon our own souls. 'Here I stand upon shifting sands and rolling waves, yet I will not be moved'.
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Canon R6
Irix 21mm
f/1.4
4 sec
ISO 3200
2024 Weekly Alphabet Challenge 17/52 ~ Quartz
Weekly Theme Challenge ~ Gemstones
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To shoot this Macro image with backlighting, I used a smooth and clear transparent crystal jewelry box as a base and placed LED lighting inside. Next I arranged the quartz stones on the top face of the crystal box and then shot my macro image with backlighting. The background is a black card.
Certo, sono anche le pietre comuni o preziose e loro colori che catturano l'immaginazione di noi umani. Che posto noioso sarebbe il nostro pianeta senza tutti i colori che la natura ci ha fatto dono e che ci circondano.
Of course, it is also common or precious stones and their colors that captivate the imagination of us humans. What a boring place our planet will surely be without the colors that nature has given us and that surround us.
Quartz (var. agate), Chihuahua, Mexico
Source: Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington, D.C.
Agate is a fine-grained variety of quartz known as chalcedony that shows concentric color banding. The colors in this agate are caused by microscopic inclusions of iron oxide minerals in the quartz. Agates are commonly found in cavities in volcanic rock, where silica-rich water deposited quartz crystals layer by layer parallel to the cavity wall.
Brazil is the major commercial source of agate.
Quartz Tower is a part of Q Residences, which is a residential complex composed of two buildings located in the district of Buitenveldert in Amsterdam. Quartz Tower, which is 75 metres tall, was designed by Studio Gang and inaugurated in 2022.
Calcite crystals that have formed on the inside of a hollow in a lump of limestone. The photo shows a 2cm section of the rock. Pentax-M f1.4 50mm lens (reverse-mounted). f16. ISO 800.
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms. It is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar.
My mother was an avid Rock Hound, belonged to a Rock & Mineral Society which met monthly and held dozens of field trips all over the US. She went on most of those trips, bringing home tons of specimens, filling up many book cases and two china cabinets.
Here is a close up of a Quartz specimen displayed in one of those cases.
*** February Alphabet Fun
Intrusive rock containing two types of feldspar- Quartz monzonite
When lava from the depth of the earth travels upwards through crustal cracks or accessory vents of the volcano,it eventually reaches the surface,where it cools down into rock.This kind of pluton is called intrusive rock.On SharpIsland you can observe intrusive rock containing quartz,as well as flesh pink (Potassium-Feldspar) and grayish white (Plagioclase feldspar) crystals in equal quantity. The rock is named quartz monzonite, an uncommon specimen in Hong Kong.
地殼深處的岩漿，通過地殼裂縫或火山口的副噴發通道湧到地殼的上層，慢慢冷卻而成的岩體叫侵入岩。在橋咀洲可以發現這些侵入岩，內含石英，大致等量的長柱狀肉紅色 (鉀長石) 和灰白色 (斜長石) 長石晶體 ，故這種岩石被稱為石英二長岩，在香港較為少見。
Hong Kong Geo Park
Sharp Island
Sai Kung
Hong Kong
香港地質公園
香港西貢橋咀島
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