Geological Collection (page 3)

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

Native copper, macrophotograph
Native copper. Native copper is copper found naturally in a pure (chemically uncombined) state. Native copper deposits are now almost depleted

Polarised LM of thin section of gneiss
Polarised light micrograph of a thin section of gneiss, a type of metamorphic rock (location unknown). Magnification: x7 at 6x6cm size

Oolitic limestone, with fossils. Limestone mainly consists of calcium carbonate. Ooliths, or ooids, are spherical grains of carbonate composed of concentric layers

Selenite crystals on a dried lake bed, White Sands National Monument, near Alamagordo, New Mexico, United States

Stromboli double eruption. Two craters of the volcano Stromboli erupting at night, throwing out pyroclastic material in the form of lava (molten rock)

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

Glacier crevasse, Canada
Glacier crevasse. Crevasse in the surface of the Tellot glacier. Crevasses form in glaciers as the ice cracks when the glacier moves

Badlands, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States of America, North America

United States, Utah, Bryce Canyon National Park. Hoodoos at sunrise from Sunset Point. Credit as: Dave Welling / Jaynes Gallery / Danita Delimont

The Jurassic Coast of Lyme Regis, Dorset

Sliven, Bulgaria - The Sinite Kamani rocks
Sliven, Bulgaris. The famous rocky massif Sinite Kamani ( The Blue Rocks ) and the associated national park, the fresh air and the mineral springs offer diverse opportunities for leisure and tourism

Henry De LA Beche
Sir Henry Thomas DE LA BECHE Distinguished geologist, responsible for the Geological Ordnance Survey, and for the institution which would grow into the Geological Museum

Franz Josef Fjord and Peterman Mountain, Greenland
View of the Franz Josef Fjord (named after the Emperor who helped to fund an expedition there) and the Peterman Mountain, with glacier, in north eastern Greenland

Mulranny, Clew Bay, Co Mayo, Ireland

The Giants Causeway, c1870. Interlocking volcanic basalt columns at UNESCO World Heritage Site - the Giants Causeway, in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland

Waterfall on Clapgate Beck, near Richmond, York, late 18th-early 19th century. Creator
Waterfall on Clapgate Beck, near Richmond, York, late 18th-early 19th century. River view in North Yorkshire

Fall of Water down Hudswell Scar, near Richmond, York, 19th century? Creator: Unknown
Fall of Water down Hudswell Scar, near Richmond, York, 19th century? Waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales

NEVADA: VIRGINIA CITY. Savage Works in Virginia City, Nevada. Photograph by Timothy O Sullivan, 1868

Plate 7a from Histoire naturelle? (1789)
Plate 7a, Mineralogie [unfinished] from Histoire naturelle: ou, Exposition des morceaux, les mieux choisis pour servir? (1789) by by Swebach Desfontaines

Plate 1 from Histoire naturelle? (1789)
Plate 1 Histoire Naturelle ou Mineralogie Complete, from Histoire naturelle: ou, Exposition des morceaux, les mieux choisis pour servir? (1789) by by Swebach Desfontaines

The Nummulosphere Part I. Front Cover
An account of the organic origin of so-called igneous rocks and of abyssal red clays by Kirkpatrick, Randolph (1863-1950), London. 1913

Copper and magnesium sulphate
Copper sulphate and magnesium sulphate crystals, polarised light micrograph

Laguna Sejar, Salar de Atacama, Atacama Desert, Chile, South America

Obsidian dome, geological site; at 8000 ft. Evidence of recent volcanic activity. on the east side of the Sierra Nevada
ROG-11943 Obsidian dome, geological site; at 8000 ft. Evidence of recent volcanic activity. on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, California

Te Tarata hot springs, Rotomahana, New Zealand
View of the Te Tarata hot springs by Lake Rotomahana, North Island, New Zealand -- thermal springs with encrusted terraces

Castle Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Smoking 700m wide crater of Volcan Telica in the North West volcano chain, one of the countrys most active volcanoes, Leon, Nicaragua, Central America

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

Thomas Davies, mineralogist
Thomas Davies (1837 - 1892), Mineralogist at the British Museum and Fellow of the Geological Society. Date: C.1890

Geologists at Piltdown
Geologists Association party visiting the pit at Piltdown on 12 July 1913

Glacial rock, Halifax 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857)
Portrait of William Daniel Conybeare, a distinguished English geologists. Drawing, charcoal on paper, artist unknown, c. 1824. Original held at the Natural History Museum, London

Mastodon in Geological Gallery, December 1919
The Guide Lecturer, John Henry Leonard, took this shot of two girls inspecting a primitive elephant or mastodon (Mammut americanus), in December 1919

Plate 17. Mantells Geology of Sussex
Plate 17 from Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, 1827 by G. A. Mantell

Plate 19. Mantells Geology of Sussex
Plate 19 from Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, 1827 by G. A. Mantell

Lulworth Cove, a perfect horseshoe-shaped bay, Jurassic Coast, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Diamond
Cut and polished diamond. Diamond is a naturally occurring form of carbon that has crystallised under great pressure. Pure crystals are colourless and transparent

Tunguska event stamp, 50th anniversary. This Soviet stamp of 1958 depicts the Russian mineralogist and Tunguska event researcher Leonid Kulik (1883-1942) at right

Spider rock, Arizona, USA
Spider Rock (lower centre left). This eroded sandstone spire is located in Canyon de Chelley National Monument, Arizona, USA

Lava meeting the ocean. Lava from the Kilauea volcano exploding and producing a plume of steam, smoke and gases where it meets the Pacific Ocean

Copper sulphate crystals. Polarised light micrograph of copper sulphate (CuS04) crystals

Lava lake, Africa
Lava lake. Molten lava inside a volcanic vent on the floor of a cinder cone. This is Erta Ale, a volcano in the Afar depression of Ethiopia

Copper and magnesium sulphate, LM
Copper and magnesium sulphate crystals. Polarised light micrograph (LM) of copper sulphate (CuSO4) and magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) crystals

Sunrise, Road to Paso Sico, Atacama Desert, Chile, South America

NA, USA, Texas, Big Bend National Park. Rio Grande

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