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- The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming silicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks. They share a common structure ...9 KB (1,340 words) - 03:53, 7 December 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Tectonic plates.png|thumb|right|300px|The tectonic plates of the Earth's lithosphere.]] The lithosphere (from the ...8 KB (1,174 words) - 00:35, 3 November 2022
- Once thought of as a single mineral species, lepidolite has been recently redefined as a series of minerals in the mica group. [http://www.mindat ...4 KB (543 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Jadeite is one of the minerals recognized as the gemstone jade. The other mineral recognized as "jade" is nephrite, a green amphibole. ...7 KB (945 words) - 12:38, 6 November 2021
- Chert is a fine-grained, silica-rich, microcrystalline, cryptocrystalline or microfibrous sedimentary rock that may contain small fossils. It ...10 KB (1,548 words) - 14:54, 5 December 2023
- Calcite is a carbonate mineral and is among the most widely distributed minerals on the Earth's surface. Chemically, it is known as calcium ...7 KB (1,007 words) - 18:20, 25 November 2023
- Anhinga is the common name for members of the bird species Anhinga anhinga of the darter family, Anhingidae. Also known as snakebird, darter ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 01:45, 9 January 2023
- Lapis lazuli, also referred to as lapis, is a stone with one of the longest traditions of being considered a gem. Deep blue in color and opaque ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- Marmot is the common name for the stocky, short-legged, diurnal, and typically short-furred and burrowing ground squirrels comprising the genus ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 16:05, 6 November 2022
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- Anaconda is the common term for any member of four species of semi-aquatic boas (Boidae family) of South America comprising the genus Eunectes ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- Apatite is the name given to a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite (or hydroxyapatite), fluoroapatite (or fluorapatite ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 05:59, 11 August 2023
- Devils Tower is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills in northeastern Wyoming (U.S.), above the Belle Fourche ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- Amethyst is a violet or purple variety of quartz often used as an ornamental stone. The name comes from the Greek words a (not) and methuskein ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 06:54, 25 July 2023
- Category:Public [[Image:Gem.pebbles.800pix.labelled.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A selection of gemstone pebbles made by tumbling rough rock with abrasive ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 06:40, 18 April 2024
- Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, meaning "to wash against") is soil or sediment deposited by a river or other running ...5 KB (763 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- The City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park at the southern end of Idaho's Albion Mountains. It is located in the south ...16 KB (2,492 words) - 22:26, 10 December 2023
- In geology and environmental science, erosion is the displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock and other particles) by the agents of wind, water ...24 KB (3,723 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- The nation of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the shape of which has been compared to a flaming torch. It encompasses 43,484 sqare ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- Sipuncula or Sipunculida is a phylum of bilaterally symmetrical, unsegmented marine invertebrates, characterized by a worm-like body divided ...11 KB (1,484 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
