A backscattered-electron image of mostly hornblende, centered on a bright illmenite grain surrounded by titanite.
Titanite encircling illmenite in an amphibolite-facies metabasalt.
#ThinSectionThursday #Metamorphic #Titanite
titanite and white mica
titanite and white mica
Lil' titanite sailing onto waves of white mica.
#titanite #geology
• Sphene loose gem ⭐️
A step cut brilliant Sphene loose gem - Mohmand Agency Zagi Warsak Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
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• Sphene loose gem ✨
A 6.65 carats loupe clean trillion cut Sphene loose gem - Mohmand Agency Zagi Warsak Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
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#sphene #titanite #loosegems #gems #gemstone #gemporn #collectables #jewelry #gemshi
World class green Alpine #Titanite (var. #Sphene) crystals from the Stubachtal, Hohe Tauern, Austria.
Bramberg museum specimen
#mineral #crystal #mineralogy #mineralexpert
• Sphene loose gem ✨
A 6.65 carats trillion cut Sphene loose gem - Mohmand Agency Zagi Warsak Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
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Snow, Snow Everywhere
Snow has started to fall in Jewel Land, as Yuku and Titana marvel at the descending snowflakes coming from above. One special snowflake even landed on Yuku's glove. What could it mean?
#Sanrio #Jewelpet #Yuku #Euclase #Titana #Titanite #Dog #Chipmunk #Snowing #Winter #FanArt
• Sphene - Pakistan
A fancy cut brilliant Sphene loose gem - Mohmand Agency Zagi Warsak Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
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• Sphene - Pakistan ✨
A cushion cut brilliant Sphene loose gem - Mohmand Agency Zagi Warsak Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
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A brilliant cushion cut Sphene Titanite loose gem - Mohmand Agency Zagi Warsak Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
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• Sphene crystal with trigons ⚜️
A Sphene crystal with trigonal structures at it’s surface - Mohmand Agency, Zagi Warsak, Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan
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Go team #titanite! #Mineralcup
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Sane people of Bluesky. I urge you to vote #Titanite #JusticeForTitanite #DownWithKosmochlor
#MinCup25
#kosmochlor is leading over #titanite? 😱😱🤯
What nonsense is this?????? Has everyone gone insane? #MinCup25
Have bots taken over? Have we been penetrated by RW nutjobs?
Danger! Danger!
Huge battle here in #MinCup25
We have ghostly green space rock #kosmochlor versus the more terrestrial titanium rooted green of #titanite.
This is a green battle for the ages and sets up a green battle for the crown.
Pics below and vote!
With 5½ hours to go, #Titanite is gaining on azurite’s killer #Kosmochlor. Titanite is a great geochronometer & a source of titanium used in pigments so it’s key for both geology AND art. It’s time for titanite to close the gap & strike a blow for those of us singing Azurite’s blues! #MinCup25
Yeah, I'm going with #titanite again this round! This colour shifting titan is also known as sphene - a name with unclear etymology, probably from a Greek substrate language(not PIE)!
Sorry, #kosmochlor! (Not as rare as it sounds.)
Whichever of you lovelies makes it through, you deserve it though!
Titanite imaged with a cellphone through a microscope ocular. Cross polarized light. The brown titanite is mostly surrounded by quartz + a bit of feldspar.
A titanite lozenge imaged in plane-polarized light. The darker titanite is surrounded by pale quartz and feldspar. This is a thin section of approximately 30 microns thickness.
Repost from last year: A titanite lozenge imaged both using a cellphone through the microscope ocular, and with a proper imaging system. It's surrounded mostly by quartz (+feldspar).
Likely from the Grenville, but from a teaching collection two generations of […]
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Done! #titanite it is
Vote #Titanite : )
As magma cools, do crystals sink or float? Does viscosity change in the melt? U and REE isotopes in #Titanite record chemical differentiation and age of magmatic melts, important for understanding evolution of Earth’s crust.
#MinCup25 sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐
Team #Titanite!
Gotta go with #titanite for all of the fun reasons, but also because it's a source of titanium dioxide, esp for use as a white pigment. (Not a primary source, but still an important source of TiO2.) #MinCup25
This is a good question. Right now, I have no idea which way to vote this match.
#Kosmochlor #Titanite (aka #Sphene) #MinCup25 #Green
My #MinCup25 watching tonight. Oh, it's 4 a.m. Well. 🤷🏻♀️
I enjoyed this video on #Titanite (also called #Sphene). It was actually kind neat to see specimens that are in matrix and with some other crystals as well as the pure titanite.
13.5 mins, ads
youtu.be/2VO4whhs-ZI?...
Not decided yet. I'm sure I'll be voting green. I might be convinced to vote #titanite because the reddish/brown variant is sooooo pretty. 🤎Plus it's useful in dating. I'd like to date this mineral to be honest: It's rather sexy.
Add to that that #titanite provides TiO2 - a billion dollar worth of pigment (titanium dioxide is found in ca 65% of all 🐷ments)!
