rocks

This page is a (not yet complete) catalogue of my geology collection. Clicking on the photos will bring up details about that specimen alongside a link to information about the species in general.

minerals - 26
chalcopyrite.jpg
  • ID: #71
  • Species: Chalcopyrite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
tourmaline.jpg
  • ID: #33
  • Species: Tourmaline
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
smoky-quartz.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #32
  • Species: Smoky Quartz
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
satin-spar.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #31
  • Species: Satin Spar
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
rose-quartz.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #30
  • Species: Rose Quartz
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
quartz.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #29
  • Species: Quartz
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
quartz-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #28
  • Species: Quartz
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
pyrite-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #27
  • Species: Pyrite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
orange-calcite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #26
  • Species: Orange Calcite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
muscovite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #25
  • Species: Muscovite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown

This sample is extremely reflective and extremely hard to photograph without ending up with a pure white image.

labradorite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #24
  • Species: Labradorite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
fluorite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #23
  • Species: Fluorite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
plagioclase.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #22
  • Species: Plagioclase
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
dyed-agate-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

dyed-agate.jpg

Specimen Qualities

citrine.jpg

Specimen Qualities

Likely not genuine citrine based on its appearance compared to real specimens.

calcite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #18
  • Species: Calcite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
blue-calcite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #17
  • Species: Blue Calcite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
bismuth.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #16
  • Species: Bismuth
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
biotite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #15
  • Species: Biotite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
baked-amethyst.jpg

Specimen Qualities

amethyst-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #13
  • Species: Amethyst
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
agate.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #12
  • Species: Agate
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unkown
  • Age: Unknown
azurite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #11
  • Species: Azurite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Canary Islands
  • Age: Unknown
amethyst.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #1
  • Species: Amethyst
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown
pyrite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #3
  • Species: Pyrite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown
rocks - 38
coal.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #72
  • Species: Coal
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Wigan
  • Age: Carboniferous
chert.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #70
  • Species:
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown
breccia-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #69
  • Species: Breccia
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown

In all actuality this is probably some anthropogenic material, which would explain the hole on one side.

slate.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #68
  • Species: Slate
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Bethesda, Gwyned, Wales
  • Age: Cambrian
sandstone

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #67
  • Species: Sandstone
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown

The white streaks running across the rock are most likely veins of quartz.

sed-quartz-veins-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #66
  • Species: Conglomerate(?)
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown

The large white crystals are quartz, seemingly forming inside a conglomerate.

quartz-veins.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #65
  • Species: Igneous(?)
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown

The rock itself appears to be some kind of igneous rock, but the more interesting aspect is the size and amount of the quartz veins inside it.

sandstone-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #64
  • Species: Sandstone
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown

The white streaks running across the rock are most likely veins of quartz.

pyroclast.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #63
  • Species: Extrusive Igneous
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Nea Kameni, Greece
  • Age: Unknown
pyroclast-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #62
  • Species: Extrusive Igneous
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Nea Kameni, Greece
  • Age: Unknown
pumice.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #61
  • Species: Pumice
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Lipari Islands, Italy
  • Age: Recent
obsidian-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #60
  • Species: Obsidian
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Anatolia, Turkey
  • Age: Pleistocene
obsidian.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #59
  • Species: Obsidian
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown
mudstone-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #58
  • Species: Mudstone
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Yorkshire, UK
  • Age: Jurassic
mudstone.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #57
  • Species: Mudstone
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: St David's Head, Pembrokeshire, Wales
  • Age: Ordovician (Arenigian)
mica-schist.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #56
  • Species: Mica Schist
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Loch Clunie, Scotland
  • Age: Pre-Cambrian
marble.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #55
  • Species: Marble
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Isle of Skye, Scotland
  • Age: Tertiary
igneous-quartz.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #54
  • Species: Igneous
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown

The thick sub-parallel veins are composed of quartz.

gneiss.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #53
  • Species: Gneiss
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Evje, Norway
  • Age: Pre-Cambrian
gabbro.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #52
  • Species: Gabbro
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: St. David's Head, Pembrokeshre, Wales
  • Age: Ordovician
fake-citrine-geode.jpg

Specimen Qualities

By far the funniest rock I've ever been given, so ridiculously fake and piss-yellow I can't help but adore it. I give my life to the Piss Geode. All hail.

fake-amethyst-geode.jpg

Specimen Qualities

The drops of dye used on it to try and give it an amethyst hue are visible to the naked eye.

crinoidal-limestone-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

crinoidal-limestone.jpg

Specimen Qualities

A nice part about this locality is that it smells rather pleasant when the pie factory nearby is active.

conglomerate.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #47
  • Species: Conglomerate
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Pembrokeshire
  • Age: Unknown
conglomerate-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #46
  • Species: Conglomerate
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Farrington, UK
  • Age: Cretaceous
chalk.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #45
  • Species: Chalk
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Yorkshire, UK
  • Age: Cretaceous
brick.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #44
  • Species: Brick
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Rivington, UK
  • Age: Recent

Brick!

breccia.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #43
  • Species: Breccia
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Ilam, Staffordshire, UK
  • Age: Pleistocene
basalt-4.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #42
  • Species: Basalt
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Nea Kameni, Greece
  • Age: Unknown
basalt-3.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #41
  • Species: Basalt
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Northern Ireland
  • Age: Tertiary
basalt.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #40
  • Species: Basalt
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown
quartz-geode.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #10
  • Species: Quartz Geode
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Canary Islands
  • Age: Unknown
quartz-monzonite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #2
  • Species: Quartz Monzonite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Shap Fell, Cumbria, UK
  • Age: Devonian
peridotite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #4
  • Species: Peridotite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Hebei, China
  • Age: Unknown

The best rock.

anthracite.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #6
  • Species: Anthracite Coal
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: South Wales
  • Age: Carboniferous
basalt.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #7
  • Species: Basalt
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Nea Kameni, Greece
  • Age: Unknown
desert-sandstone.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #8
  • Species: Sandstone
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Locality: Penrith, Cumbria
  • Age: Permian
fossils - 6
spino-tooth.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #39
  • Species: Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Length: Unknown
  • Width: Unknown
  • Locality: Erfoud, Morocco
  • Age: Late Jurassic
nautiloid.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #38
  • Species: Nautiloid
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Length: Unknown
  • Width: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown
ammonoid-3.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #37
  • Species: Ammonoid
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Circumference: Unknown
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown

I won this in a university meme contest.

ammonoid-2.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #36
  • Species: Ammonoid
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Length: 6.5cm
  • Width: 4.5cm
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown
flexicalymene.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #5
  • Species: Flexicalymene Trilobite
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Length: 6.5cm
  • Width: 4.5cm
  • Locality: Erfoud, Morocco
  • Age: Ordovician
ammonoid.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #9
  • Species: Ammonoid
  • Weight: Unknown
  • Circumference: 15.7cm
  • Locality: Unknown
  • Age: Unknown
other - 3
septarian-nodule.jpg

Specimen Qualities

mica.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #35

Originally part of a purchase of a one-kilogram bag of biotite mica. Most of it is still in the original bag.

jar.jpg

Specimen Qualities

  • ID: #34

This jar contains all the smaller specimens and tumblestones from my collection. It contains gifts from an advent calendar, random fossils and stained glass.

rockviewer.exe
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