Geology Gallery

Three men by near a huge granite boulder, Luxulyan Valley, Cornwall. 1900

Three men from the photographic party pose for the camera to give scale to the granite boulder. The man on the left of the picture is almost certainly the photographer Herbert Hughes, associate and friend of John Charles Burrow. Photographer: John Charles Burrow

© From the collection of the RIC

Boulders, Cornish, Countryside, Equipment, Geology, Landmark, Photographers, Photographic, Rural, Stone

Tetrahedrite, Trenance, St Issey, near Padstow, Cornwall, England

Tetrahedrite coated in chalcopyrite with minor siderite. Collector Philip Rashleigh wrote: Crystals of Grey Copper Ore in triangles with a little spatose Iron Ore, near Padstow'. Rashleigh Collection

© RIC, photographer A.G. Tindle

Cornish, Cu, Geology, Grey, Metal, Metallic, Mine, Mining, Sulfosalt, Tetrahedron

Feldspar Crystals from Summit of Mount Erebus (Natural Size), 1909

Feldspar Crystals from Summit of Mount Erebus (Natural Size), 1909. Specimens of crystallised magma from the volcano Erebus. Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) made three expeditions to the Antarctic. During the second expedition, 1907-1909, he and three companions established a new record, Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles, or 180 km) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Members of his team also climbed Mount Erebus, the most active volcano in the Antarctic. Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII for these achievements. He died during his third and last oceanographic and sub-antarctic expedition, aged 47. Illustration from The Heart of the Antarctic, Vol. I, by E. H. Shackleton, C.V.O. [William Heinemann, London, 1909]

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