Callback for #mincup2024: bears eat salmon, and we think salmon like to eat pteropods, which make their shells out of calcium carbonate. I hereby dedicate this #fatbearweek run to the fallen Team Calcite. 🏳️🌊 🐻🐟aoan.aoos.org/impacts/species-response...
If you enjoyed #mincup2024, I present for your consideration: Fat Bear Week. VOTES ARE OPEN. www.nps.gov/katm/learn/f... 🌊
For those of us suffering withdrawal from #MinCup2024 Guess the Gem 👇 is a great way to scratch that itch
MEAT ROCK! MEAT ROCK! MEAT ROCK!
#mincup2024
What better way to kick off Spooky Season than a delicious #MeatRock dinner?
Vote #Rhodochrosite #MinCup2024
You beautiful maniacs! You did it! Rhodochrosite is heading to the final round in #MinCup2024!
sorry i haven't been able to play #MinCup2024 this year but i did go out and find a COOL mineral. dunno what is.
embedded in quartzite mountain, Bartholomew's Cobble, Berkshire Co. MA. south of Sheffield.
i keep forgetting how to find geological information on the web.
quartzite then xtals
#mincup2024 come on…kyanite…really? It’s “metamorphic!”shmorphic. Show me a kyanite sample that doesn’t look like blue crumbles 😂
DYK: coccolithophores seasonally cover most of the Southern Ocean in calcite? We call it the Great Calcite Belt. CALCITE FTW #mincup2024 🌊
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_C...
www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r3m3
Rose-like calcite is found in a variety of locations around the world, including Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. The crystals form around a central point, and they grow outward in a circular or star-shaped pattern.
#MinCup2024 #Calcite
Resharing this because it's #FossilFriday and calcite is playing in today's #MinCup2024 match. Don't let the meat rock win and vote calcite: www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r3m3
#minerals #museums 🧪⚒️
Oh I forgot to tag it #MinCup24 or #MinCup2024 or whatever the tag is
You can have some fun and vote #Mincup2024 #Quartz
MeatRock is great and all, but I am definitely Team Quartz.
Vote Quartz all the way! #mincup2024
Vote for vivianite! Currently losing by a single vote! #mincup2024
My Montana sapphire engagement ring would be annoyed if I didn’t vote corundum! #MinCup24 #mincup2024
A close-up photo of Blue Kyanite showing varying shade of blue to white crystals.
Look at this beaut. Vote Kyanite people! #MinCup2024 #teamkyanite @mineralcup.bsky.social
Just 4 hours to push #Atacamite over the edge here, we are trailing, but let's get some #color into the #MinCup2024
Beauty that forms in very harsh conditions? Sign me up.
Similar to #dioptase, so green fans unite!
Used for everything from oil paintings and bloodworm jaws, it's rare, it's hot, vote!
#MinCup2024 #whewellite ok i'm gonna look up possible abiotic formation of oxalate minerals.
I suppose there must be some in meteorites
can't find them yet.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Last call for round 4!
Somehow I’m in the wrong time zone to see the posts in the morning. Don’t forget to vote. #minCup2024
100% truth, I'm a large bit mentally broken right know because of CRASH detransition. But when I was in the show I was legit crying, am and currently, knowing I missed supporting kaolinite for #MinCup2024 this year. Irrationally feel I let #TeamKaolinte down horribly. I'm messed up!
I almost missed voting in this round!
My kid voted for history (copper) and as a good mathematician/geometer I voted for crystal structure. I guess we cancel each other out… #minCup2024
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
MinCup: pop that cup of water in the freezer and you have half a cup of mineral!
#TeamIceForever. Even when it isn't competing! (unless it is up against K-feldspar)
#MinCup #MinCup24 #MinCup2024
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
MinCup: vote for the pretty one!
#MinCup24 #MinCup2024
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Today I learned about (and voted for) Arsenuranospathite. Happy #MinCup2024 to all who celebrate!
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It’s no conundrum…vote corundum!
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Ginger tomcat Simba is presenting his porcelain foodbowl
Ginger tomcat Simba is eating from his food bowl
Today is the first duel of #MinCup2024. It's the well known #kaolinite, an important ingredient for #porcelain/#china, vs. the rare #mineral #abelsonite. Doesn't matter how rare... #foodbowl beats everything 😹
#DoesItCat ? Of course 😹
#geologywithcats
#MinCup24 #TeamKaolinite
