Geological Collection (page 2)

Mountain Avens among Fossil coral on Parker Ridge, Banff National Park, Rockies, Canada
ROG-14054 Mountain Avens among Fossil coral on Parker Ridge, Banff National Park, Rockies, Canada Dryas octopetala Bob Gibbons Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Seven Sisters Chalk Cliffs, and coastguard cottages, Cuckmere Haven, near Seaford, East Sussex, England

Martian landscape, artwork. Mars is a rocky desert world with no surface water. The red colour of the rocks is due to a high content of iron oxides

Giants Causeway. Columns of basalt rock at the Giants Causeway, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. This site has been designated a World Heritage Site

Diamond, computer artwork
Cut and polished diamond, computer artwork. Diamond is a naturally occurring form of carbon that has crystallised under great pressure

Copper sulphate crystals, LM
Copper sulphate crystals. Polarised light micrograph (LM) of copper sulphate (CuSO4) crystals

Steppe-desert border, satellite image. North is at top. Arid areas of desert rock are brown, while grassy steppe areas are green. A small area of desert sands (yellow) is seen at far centre right

Ancient bristlecone pine trees on Wheeler Peak, Great Basin National Park
ROG-12244 Ancient bristlecone pine trees Wheeler Peak, Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA Pinus longaeva Bob Gibbons Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Green apophyllite from Jalgaon, India

Arches National Park, Utah, United States of America, North America

The huge caldera of the Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, United States of America, North America

Calcareous phytoplankton fossil, SEM Z100 / 0213
Calcareous phytoplankton fossil. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a fossil of the skeleton (coccosphere) of a coccolithotrope, a small marine algal organism

Continental Drift
5 diagrams illustrating the positions of the continents 380 mya, 200 mya, 135 mya, 50 mya and the present

Aquamarine crystal. Aquamarine is a transparent blue or blue-green variety of beryl (beryllium aluminium silicate). The colour is due to trace amounts of iron within the crystal structure

Peridot. The specimens at top right and middle right are polished and the specimens at left are in their natural state. Peridot is a variety of the mineral olivine (magnesium iron silicate)

Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, 1832 (watercolour and pencil on paper)
7528566 Loch Coruisk, Isle of Skye, 1832 (watercolour and pencil on paper) by Robson, George Fennel (1788-1833); 45x30 cm; Gallery Oldham

Geological map of the European Alps, lithograph, published in 1897
Geological map of the European Alps. Lithograph, published in 1897

Mining Geological profiles lithograph 1895
Encyclopedia Britannica 9th Edition Vol I New York, Samuel Hall 1878

Cornish tin mining, 19th century
Cornish tin mining, 19th-century artwork. Miners working in a shaft in a tin mine in Cornwall, UK. Many such excavations were near the coast and extended out under the sea for nearly a kilometre

Milky Way above Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Moab, Grand County, Utah, United States of America, North America

The Queens Head rock formation at the Yehliu GeoPark, Wanli in Taiwan
The Queens Head rock formation at the Yehliu GeoPark, part of the Daliao Miaocene Formation in Wanli in Taiwan

Redfish Lake in a valley north of Sun Valley, Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho, United States of America, North America

William Smiths Geological Map
Fig. 6 from Delineation of Strata of England and Wales (1815) by William Smith

Planets internal structures, and Pluto, computer artwork. Mercury, Mars and Venus consist of a large iron core (spherical), surrounded by a thick silicate mantle (yellow) covered in a surface crust

Nikolay Urvantsev, Soviet geologist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Urvantsev (1893-1985), Soviet geologist, speaking in public at his 80th birthday celebration. Urvantsev is best known for his exploration of northern Siberia and the Arctic

Richat Structure, satellite image. North is at top. Desert sands are pale yellow/white (top left and lower right), while less sandy, rocky areas are green, and volcanic rocks are blue

Apollo 17 sample of lunar basalt. The dark areas visible on the Moon (the lunar maria) are plains of flood basaltic lava flows

Dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era - China
An artificial reconstruction by Neave Parker (with the co-operation of Dr. W. E. Swinton) of Dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era found in China especially in the Provinces of Kansu and Szechuan

View of Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam
Ha Long Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular travel destination in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam. Administratively, the bay belongs to H Long City, Cam Pha town

Aerial view of the San Juan River cutting through Raplee Anticline west of the town of Bluff, Utah

Sandy beach on Redfish Lake in a valley north of Sun Valley, Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho, United States of America, North America

Olduvai Gorge landscape, Tanzania C015 / 6429
Olduvai Gorge landscape, Tanzania. This gorge (also called Oldupai Gorge) is famous for the fossils discovered here of extinct hominins that form part of the human evolutionary tree

Mount Etna erupting, 2012 C016 / 4639
Mount Etna erupting, 2012. Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy. Photographed on 27th April 2012

Mars 96 surface station, artwork
Mars 96 surface station. Artwork showing one of the surface stations of the Russian Mars 96 mission landing on Mars after being released from orbit

Water on Mars, conceptual image. Computer artwork showing frozen water ice under Mars surface

Martian sand dunes, satellite image
Martian sand dunes. Coloured satellite image of north polar sand dunes blown into crescent shapes by the wind. The dunes are covered by carbon dioxide frost except dark-coloured patches where

Sunset at Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam
Ha Long Bay is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular travel destination in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam. Administratively, the bay belongs to Ha Long City, Cam Pha town

Native silver
Silver found in pure form in the ground is called native silver (Ag) - it is an elemental metal and structure is dendritic or branch-like

The Barbarine - first climbed 1905 - Germany
The Barbarine - the best-known, free-standing rock formation in the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. The pinnacle is the symbol of Saxon Switzerland

Early morning light on hoodoos at Bryce National Park, Utah

Basalt columns at the beach, Vik i Myrdal, Iceland, Polar Regions

The colourful Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Wyoming, United States of America, North America

Young woman enjoying the coast, Second Beach, Olympic National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Washington State, United States of America, North America

Evergreens, red maples, and red rock on the Emerald Pools Trail, Zion National Park, Utah, United States of America, North America

Eroded sea arch
Sea arch and a calm sea. This is Durdle Door, near Lulworth Cove in Dorset, UK. A sea arch forms when wave action erodes part of a headland quicker than the rest

Northern Corries at dawn. View looking west just before sunrise across Coire an t-Sneachda (hollow area) to Coire Lochain. The ridge separating the two hollows is is the Fiacaill Ridge

Ammonite. Polished sectioned ammonite fossil. Ammonites are extinct marine invertebrates. They first appeared in the Late Silurian to Early Devonian period (around 400 million years ago)

Eastern Himalayas, satellite image. North is at top. Snow is white, vegetation is red, barren areas are light blue and water is dark blue

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