Different types of Rock [Archive] - MysticWicks Online Pagan Community and Spiritual Sanctuary

Lanna

September 11th, 2003, 08:39 PM

hope this helps! :)

Botswana agate is a purplish-grey fortification agate exhibiting white patterns of, usually, circles or ovoids. It is generally found in the form of nodules.

It can be used to stimulate the exploration of the unknown and to further ones quest towards the enlightened state. It enhances creativity and helps one to release the emotional nuances which have been repressed. It also allows one to look toward the solution, rather than dwell on the problem.

It stimulates the crown chakra and energises the auric body, encouraging eternal love and allowing for the recognition that eternal love is a constant in the ever changing universe.

It helps one to maintain a forthright character and to sustain an attentiveness to detail which further facilitates the sensitivity to, and the recognition and the understanding of, the complete picture( regardless of distortion).

Botswana agate can be used in the treatment of disorders of the nervous system and help to rid the body of toxins. It is said to counteract poisoning on the physical, emotional, and intellectual planes. It can also be used to ameliorate depression and stress.

nomadicdragon

September 11th, 2003, 08:45 PM

Lanna

September 11th, 2003, 08:51 PM

its real pretty, not in a 'hey im a pretty stone' way, but in a more 'needs to be really looked at' to be appreciated kind of way!!! :)

glad to have helped! :)

nomadicdragon

September 11th, 2003, 08:53 PM

its real pretty, not in a 'hey im a pretty stone' way, but in a more 'needs to be really looked at' to be appreciated kind of way!!! :)

glad to have helped! :)

it is... i own only a few stones.. but that's one of my favorites..

SylverStar

September 11th, 2003, 08:55 PM

:lol: I don't know what's funnier; How the thread started or that it now fits in this forum. :)

nomadicdragon

September 11th, 2003, 08:57 PM

:lol: I don't know what's funnier; How the thread started or that it now fits in this forum. :)

good point

Lanna

September 11th, 2003, 09:03 PM

yeah this thread rocks! :geez:

Desert_Yaqui

September 11th, 2003, 10:25 PM

I like Motley Crue. I would classify them as Rock.

:)

Sorry, but I got dared.

Um, yea... Um like, dude, the :-@-ing Crüe rocks! :fpraiseyo

Yes mol, I too can appreciate good Rock humour....

:hailmol:

mol

September 12th, 2003, 08:55 AM

Aww, man. My thread has been turned into something informative! :)

Hawk Shadowsoul

September 28th, 2003, 08:10 PM

Aww, man. My thread has been turned into something informative! :)
Not totally. Beatles Rule.

But, um, lately I have been being pulled towards a crystal ball. Is this the right forum to ask or should I go to divination?

HELP!

Ravens_Tears

September 28th, 2003, 08:51 PM

I cant believe no one else laughed at my joke.
Does it count that I chuckled as soon as I saw it? Just didn't see it until now.... :P

mol

October 3rd, 2003, 09:00 AM

Not totally. Beatles Rule.

But, um, lately I have been being pulled towards a crystal ball. Is this the right forum to ask or should I go to divination?

HELP!
I would try divination.

mol

October 3rd, 2003, 09:01 AM

Does it count that I chuckled as soon as I saw it? Just didn't see it until now.... :P
I guess!

Traz Heart

October 3rd, 2003, 10:28 AM

Rocks rocks rocks rocks
Rocks rocks rocks rocks
There's rocks above and rocks below
There rocks down in the valley
There's rocks ahead and rocks behind
...and something that rhymes with valley
And something that rhymes with valley Rocks rocks rocks rocks
Rocks rocks rocks rocks

Rocks rocks rocks
The mountain's full of rocks
You'll never have to scratch and itch
Just rub it on the

Rocks rocks rocks rocks
Rocks rocks rocks rocks

We climb the rocks because they're there
They're all so hard and manly
We don't use spikes, picks or ropes
We use our little handsies
We use our little handsies

Rocks rocks rocks rocks
Rocks rocks rocks rocks

Rocks rocks rocks
Our pants get full of rocks
They're even in our underwear
We really like the

Rocks rocks rocks rocks
Rocks rocks rocks rocks

I wish these rocks were bigger rocks
As big as rocks could get-o
I'd climb and climb and climb and climb
And climb and climb and climb-o.

Second Verse:

Rocks rocks rocks rocks
Rocks rocks rocks rocks Rocks rocks rocks
My love affair with rocks
Society won't understand
And here comes Mr. Spock.

Later in the movie:

Rocks, rocks, rocks, rocks
Rocks, rocks, rocks, rocks,
Rocks, rocks, rocks
The ship contains no rocks
We still want to climb and climb
And here comes Mr. Spock.

Cev'aq

October 3rd, 2003, 02:18 PM

Lmao

Myrddyn Emrys

October 3rd, 2003, 02:29 PM

Aww, man. My thread has been turned into something informative! :)
NO! Can't have that!

How about Frampton?! :headphone

I prefer the classic style of rocks.

Of course, as old as Motley Crue is, they qualify.

Myrddyn Emrys

mol

October 7th, 2003, 10:32 AM

NO! Can't have that!

How about Frampton?! :headphone

I prefer the classic style of rocks.

Of course, as old as Motley Crue is, they qualify.

Myrddyn Emrys
Frampton is very cool.

Every time this forum gets slow I am going to come in here and talk about rock.

Myrddyn Emrys

October 7th, 2003, 12:51 PM

I used to work at a Mailing and Shipping store in North Scottsdale AZ, and he was one of our regular customers. I packaged and mailed a demo copy of Frampton Comes Alive 2 for him to his parents in England. I also had to pack and ship his gutars and tux one day and overnight them to him when he was asked to do an inpromptu benefit somewhere back east. Frampton got very depressed when Gary Larson quit doing his Far Side comics, He and I spent about an hour one day going through the Far Side greeting cards we sold there. For all his fame, the man is very casual.

I also met both David Ellefson and Dave Mustain from Megadeath at the same store. Ellefson is a very casual, friendly person with a friendly but rather plain wife, whereas Mustain has a supermodel-no-personality wife, and is rather aloof himself.

Not exactly rock-related, but I also packed and shipped photo albums and horse breeding records to Belle Reeve Farms in Kentucky, that's William Shatner's Horse Ranch.

Myrddyn Emrys

mol

October 7th, 2003, 02:12 PM

Wow! Shipping and recieving has to be one of the best jobs in the world. :)

Pesha

October 7th, 2003, 02:56 PM

Oh I had to get in on this one....lol

Nickleback, I like Nickleback.......

There I did it and I'm glad......giggles

BB
DS.

mol

October 8th, 2003, 08:44 AM

It is stlll slow in this forum.

*whistles*

Myrddyn Emrys

October 8th, 2003, 12:55 PM

It was a store like a Mail Boxes etc. AND IT SUCKED!! Especially the months of November and December!

Those were the ONLY highlights of the three years I was there. Those encounters were only due to the store being in the ritzy part of North Scottsdale. But, I will say those encounters were memorable.

Myrddyn Emrys

mol

October 9th, 2003, 08:51 AM

And still no posts in this forum. Interesting.

I did shipping and recieving for a small company here in Tulsa and I really enjoyed it for the most part. I can underdstand why a place like Mail Box, etc. would suck though. :)

Snowflake

October 9th, 2003, 11:54 AM

Hi, I'm new here.

I love my stones, gems and crystals.
I have collected them since childhood and on through my adult years. I like them polished or raw. Sometimes I find them calling out to me.
*over here, over here, pick me up*
which I always do.
I have my favorites depending on which element or intent. But my Crystal is usually my main one I hold in my hand. The more I use it the easier it seems to send and receive, depending on which hand I use.

mol

October 14th, 2003, 09:27 AM

Hi, Snowflake. Welcome to MW.

mol

October 17th, 2003, 09:16 AM

*yawn*

Mithrea

October 17th, 2003, 02:44 PM

*yawn*

:rolleyes:

Myrddyn Emrys

October 17th, 2003, 05:10 PM

ESPECIALLY from the day after Thanksgiving until December 26th.
The one I was at was clearing 300 packages a day during that time for UPS alone, not counting Airborne, FedEx, or US Mail. It just plain SUCKED! Yeah, sure, Happy Holidays my ------! 12-14 hour days, grumpy people, snowstorms shutting down shipping hubs and airports. "Why didn't my package get there?!" Well, it's sitting in a snowbank in New jersey with ten thousand other ones!

For the most part, I did like the job. Found out all sorts of wierd Postal Regulations. Did you know you can mail day-old chicks, but you can't mail a live chicken? You can't mail used shoes to Italy.
Those are only a couple out of a foot-thick(and I'm not exaggerating) Postal Regulations Manual. There is still, after eight years, soo much usless crap like that floating around in my head, I'm surprised I can remember my own name!

Uh...who am I again?

Rockprincess

October 17th, 2003, 05:27 PM

Oh Mol, don't be bored in the Rock forum! Rocks rock.:rolleyes: :lol:

I am a geo geek - I love places where people ask questions about rocks. I always try to get rock sections added to message boards I join :smoke:

So...bored? Ask me a question. Any thing you like, as long as it's to do with rocks.

mol

October 17th, 2003, 07:49 PM

:rolleyes:
:)

mol

October 17th, 2003, 07:49 PM

Jax

October 17th, 2003, 08:04 PM

Rockprincess

October 20th, 2003, 09:39 AM

Hi Jax! Always exciting to meet other geogeeks :lol: Especially other pagan geogeeks :floating:

Do you work in the field? I'm a petroleum geologist.

mol

October 21st, 2003, 09:16 AM

Hi Jax! Always exciting to meet other geogeeks :lol: Especially other pagan geogeeks :floating:

Do you work in the field? I'm a petroleum geologist.
A petro geologist?

What does that entail?

Rockprincess

October 21st, 2003, 10:56 AM

I look for oil and gas (and find it, hopefully ;))

It's a great job - I have to visualize how the earth was at some period in the past (ie...was there a river valley here, was it a sea shore) and then draw maps of what it looked like, and whether the rocks now contain oil and gas...then we drill wells, which tells me if I'm right or wrong. It's very fulfilling! :woot:

mol

October 21st, 2003, 11:00 AM

Jax

October 24th, 2003, 07:49 AM

Hi Jax! Always exciting to meet other geogeeks :lol: Especially other pagan geogeeks :floating:

Do you work in the field? I'm a petroleum geologist.
Hi, Rockprincess! I wish I did work in the field!!!!!!! :( I've just been offered a job as a Court Usher (I'd get to donn wig and gown!!! ;) ) but can't afford the childcare for three children! Hopefully I'm going back to Uni in Feb to finish off the midwifery degree that I couldn't finish as I decided to undertake the practical side of it and had my third child!roflmao!!!! But, my eldest (who is 9 and a half) want's desperately to be a geologist when he gets older!! Yippppeeeee! So, for the forseeable future I'm just going to stick to armchair geology!!!hehehehehe!!! By the way, nice to meet you too!! :D

Balderdash

October 25th, 2003, 03:06 PM

Hey Lanna! Great reply on the agate question. Where'd you get all the info on agates? I have worked with a lot of different agates, but I have never seen much detail written about them. I would like to see some other interpretations / uses of these stones.

Thanks - B

mol

October 28th, 2003, 10:02 AM

Hey! You all are trying to hijack my thread!

Rockprincess

October 28th, 2003, 11:38 AM

:hailmol:

Let it not be said that we peons attempted to have a rock conversation in the rock thread!

Queen is my favorite rock group ever. Questions, comments, concerns? :lol:

(Is that better? ;))

mol

November 8th, 2003, 02:51 PM

:rollingla

mol

November 10th, 2003, 10:22 AM

*tap* *tap*

Rockprincess

November 10th, 2003, 10:50 AM

Sorry, oh impatient leader, but it is hard to carry on a conversation all on one's own....:chatty:

mol

November 10th, 2003, 11:05 AM

Sorry, oh impatient leader, but it is hard to carry on a conversation all on one's own....:chatty:
It is? I do it all the time!

mol

November 11th, 2003, 10:14 AM

It is? I do it all the time!
You do?

mol

November 12th, 2003, 09:22 AM

You do?
Sure. It's cool. Everyone does it....no one ever admits it.

Kaylara

November 12th, 2003, 11:01 AM

LMAO. You nut.

Rockprincess

November 12th, 2003, 12:06 PM

Sure. It's cool. Everyone does it....no one ever admits it.
:lol: You are a nut :lol:

mol

November 13th, 2003, 10:03 AM

:2G: What?

Rockprincess

November 13th, 2003, 10:16 AM

nut http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/JPG/pron.jpg (https://secure.reference.com/premium/login.html?rd=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.reference.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dnut) ( P ) Pronunciation Key (http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html) (nhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/ubreve.gift)
n.
<LI type=a>An indehiscent, hard-shelled, one-loculated, one-seeded fruit, such as an acorn or hazelnut. <LI type=a>A seed borne within a fruit having a hard shell, as in the peanut, almond, or walnut. The kernel of any of these.

Slang.

<LI type=a>A crazy or eccentric person. An enthusiast; a buff: a movie nut.
Informal. A difficult endeavor or problem: Painting the closet was a tough nut to crack. Slang. The human head. Music.

<LI type=a>A ridge of wood at the top of the fingerboard or neck of a stringed instrument, over which the strings pass. A device at the lower end of the bow for a stringed instrument, used for tightening the hairs.
A small block of metal or wood with a central, threaded hole that is designed to fit around and secure a bolt or screw. Slang.

<LI type=a>The cost of launching a business venture. The operating expenses of a theater, theatrical production, or similar enterprise: “The [theater] has simply failed to attract enough paying customers per week to meet its nut” (Variety).
Vulgar Slang. A testicle.I was inferring Slang 1.1, but you can take whichever meaning you prefer :lol:

hazelleaf

November 14th, 2003, 03:55 AM

I like Motley Crue. I would classify them as Rock.

:)

Sorry, but I got dared.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, hoo hoo hoo hoo, hyuck hyuck!! heh..that was funny mol! I prefer softer rock such as the Beatles.

mol

November 14th, 2003, 10:32 AM

Ack!

hazelleaf

November 14th, 2003, 10:48 AM

Ack!

what? what's wrong with the beatles?

Kalika

November 16th, 2003, 07:13 PM

Metallica!!!

Motley Crue is great too though. :D

mol

November 17th, 2003, 10:10 AM

what? what's wrong with the beatles?
Ack referring to definition!

mol

November 18th, 2003, 09:44 AM

Ack referring to definition!
Definition of what?

Rockprincess

November 18th, 2003, 08:52 PM

Definition of what?
Uh oh, mol's talking to himself again...must be time for another definition?

cra·zy http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/JPG/pron.jpg (https://secure.reference.com/premium/login.html?rd=2&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.reference.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcrazy) ( P ) Pronunciation Key (http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey.html) (krhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/amacr.gifhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/prime.gifzhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/emacr.gif)
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I think I'll opt for 2.a. this time :smoke:

Kalika

November 18th, 2003, 11:12 PM

Hmmm.... Mol, I'm beginning to wonder a little bit. I talk to myself because its an easy way to get intelligent conversation.... :lol:

I'm not a big beatles fan either though.

Anybody have any real ROCKS that they like though, or want to discuss?

Rockprincess

November 19th, 2003, 07:19 PM

Anybody have any real ROCKS that they like though, or want to discuss?
Hmm...you mean like the big sparkly sapphire glittering away on my ring finger? ;) It's a real rock, and I LOVE it :heartthro!

Or would you rather talk about my handsample of silimanite that my FI brought me after being away for a few weeks? It's rather fibrous, but sparkly and shiny all at once.

Hmm...come to think of it, my fiance supplies me with most of my gorgeous rocks! :lol:

Kalika

November 19th, 2003, 07:44 PM

Hmm...you mean like the big sparkly sapphire glittering away on my ring finger? ;) It's a real rock, and I LOVE it :heartthro!

Or would you rather talk about my handsample of silimanite that my FI brought me after being away for a few weeks? It's rather fibrous, but sparkly and shiny all at once.

Hmm...come to think of it, my fiance supplies me with most of my gorgeous rocks! :lol:

:lol: Mine too. Sapphires and diamonds... he has given me lots.

Oooh... is your engagement "rock" a sapphire? ;)

Rockprincess

November 20th, 2003, 01:32 PM

:lol: Mine too. Sapphires and diamonds... he has given me lots.

Oooh... is your engagement "rock" a sapphire? ;)
Yes! A big beautiful diamond-cut medium blue sapphire. It took him 9 months to find the perfect stone! It's set with a trillium cut diamond on each side. I adore it! :heartthro It made it worth waiting FOREVER for the proposal :lol:

Sounds like you've got a good guy too...nothing like sparklies to win a girl's heart! :woot:

What favorite rocks do you have?!

mol

November 21st, 2003, 12:38 PM

I dont have any favorite rocks right now.

Kalika

November 21st, 2003, 01:21 PM

Mol!

Hmm... favorites... of the rocks that we were discussing earlier, I have an oval cut sapphire with 5 diamonds going down the band on each side... that's probably my favorite.

As to rocks rocks I would still have to say clear quartz, because there are so many uses... and its just pretty.

Anyone else?

Rockprincess

November 21st, 2003, 05:59 PM

I dont have any favorite rocks right now.
Try going for a walk by the river with your kids. They'll pick some up for sure :lol: Or, if you'd like the kind Kalika and I have...you may have to sweet talk Semele ;)

Kalika

November 22nd, 2003, 12:15 PM

:lol:

Hmmm.... I'm trying to picture Semele giving Mol a giant rock......

Rockprincess

November 25th, 2003, 10:38 AM

:lol:

Hmmm.... I'm trying to picture Semele giving Mol a giant rock......
Semele: "Here you go sweetie, I knew you wanted one!"

Mol: "Woot! An olistolith!"

:lol: :lol: :lol:

mol

November 26th, 2003, 10:27 AM

:lol:

Hmmm.... I'm trying to picture Semele giving Mol a giant rock......
Im not saying anything about that!

cloud

November 27th, 2003, 04:20 AM

Im not saying anything about that!
:lol:

mothwench

November 27th, 2003, 04:22 AM

mol, where's your avatar? you have no face.
rockprincess, do you know about rocks from the ocean? i have one i want to know about. i'll post a pic later when i've bought some batteries for the camera.

Rockprincess

November 27th, 2003, 10:18 AM

rockprincess, do you know about rocks from the ocean?
Well, I know about rocks in general - almost all rocks end up in the ocean eventually, so I can't say anything specific about your rock until I see it or you describe it...:) But go ahead and post a picture - I love rock puzzles :bouncybob

mothwench

November 28th, 2003, 06:49 AM

okay, here they are, but they are badly done, i don't know, i think the flash is too bright or something. one worked, but in that one, i wobbled. :rolleyes:

i'll give you a brief description. mostly blueish grey in color, mottled with white. the grey parts are quite smooth, the white parts are rough. all of them have holes. the fact that this one is shaped like a crow's skull is a coincidence. the holes are natural, not drilled in or anthing.
my brother found them on a beach in poland and gave me one. he said the locals called them *chicken gods*, cause apparently they hang them up in the hen houses so that the hens lay more eggs. :huh:
well, want i wanted to know was, geologically what is this stone?

Rockprincess

November 28th, 2003, 11:21 AM

Ok, well from your description and the picture (and without getting to look and touch the rock myself!), I'd say it's likely a chert cemented with calcium carbonate. So here is the story of how that happened:

1. Volcano erupted and lava flowed into the sea - gasses trapped within the lava made holes in the hardening material - a vesicular basalt (dark rock full of holes) was formed

2. Ocean waters very slowly percolated through the rock, depositing chert (microcrystaline quartz) in the holes and eventually filling them

3. Continued wave action and water movement wore away at the basalt (which is relatively weak compared to chert) - at the same time, calcium carbonate precipitated between the chert nodules

4. Some event occured to break up the rock but not move it very far (earthquake, sea level dropped and weathering processes began, something like that)

5. Wave action moved the broken pieces around, rounding and smoothing them

That's the normal process for the kind of rock I think you have! I hope that made sense :)

mothwench

November 28th, 2003, 11:35 AM

aye! you rock, rockprincess! :bubbles:

Rockprincess

November 28th, 2003, 03:45 PM

aye! you rock, rockprincess! :bubbles:
:yourock:

Thanks :) I like talking about rocks :lol:

mol

December 1st, 2003, 12:59 PM

We all rock!

FeatherGoblinglimmer

December 2nd, 2003, 03:44 AM

Rocks< Rocks< Rocks!!!!!!!!!!

mothwench

December 2nd, 2003, 10:43 AM

heh. i also think the ramones rock!
:boing: hey, ho, let's go! :boing:

Rockprincess

December 2nd, 2003, 07:58 PM

A present for all of us! :lol:

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Kalika

December 2nd, 2003, 10:49 PM

Im not saying anything about that!

:lol:

Why not? It's all in good fun. ;)

This thread came alive again!!

Semele gives him an osili...whaa??

mothwench

December 3rd, 2003, 07:23 AM

A present for all of us! :lol:]
:boing: :boing: :boing: :boing: wheee! :boing: :boing: :boing: :boing: :hehehehe:
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Rockprincess

December 3rd, 2003, 10:04 AM

:lol:

Why not? It's all in good fun. ;)

This thread came alive again!!

Semele gives him an osili...whaa??:lol:

an olistolith - it's a really really big rock that broke away from the original even bigger block but landed upright, and has remained in place. The only place I've ever seen them is in the Basque country of Spain - they were part of a huge underwater reef complex, and broke off and landed on the ocean floor, and then the entire area was lifted (slowly) out of the water, but all the rocks stayed where they were...here are some pictures I took!

http://www.angelfire.com/stars/Eowyn/Rocks/olistoliths.html

Edited to add: I TOLD you I was a rock geek :steppy:

mol

December 4th, 2003, 10:22 AM

:lol:

an olistolith - it's a really really big rock that broke away from the original even bigger block but landed upright, and has remained in place. The only place I've ever seen them is in the Basque country of Spain - they were part of a huge underwater reef complex, and broke off and landed on the ocean floor, and then the entire area was lifted (slowly) out of the water, but all the rocks stayed where they were...here are some pictures I took!

http://www.angelfire.com/stars/Eowyn/Rocks/olistoliths.html

Edited to add: I TOLD you I was a rock geek :steppy:
Holy crap! You are the uber rock geek for sure.

Rockprincess

December 4th, 2003, 11:06 AM

Holy crap! You are the uber rock geek for sure.
Well thank you :fpompoms:

:lol:

mol

December 8th, 2003, 10:17 AM

Well thank you :fpompoms:

:lol:
You are welcome!

Rockprincess

December 8th, 2003, 02:26 PM

So where will we tangent off to this week?

Perhaps y'all would like to know that the black sand beaches of hawaii are actually made up of dark green olivine crystals? :bouncybob

mol

December 8th, 2003, 04:39 PM

I thought it was crushed lava rock?

Rockprincess

December 8th, 2003, 04:52 PM

I thought it was crushed lava rock?
Well, sort of. When the volcano erupts, it oozes lava into the sea, where it cools rapidly, so only small crystals grow (slow cooling = big crystals). Most of the crystals are pyroxene and amphibole, longish black crystals. The others are roughly round dark yellowish - green olivine crystals. :sick: (Olivine smilie) Pyroxene and Amphibole weather (are broken up and or chemically altered) much more easily than olivine, so they wash away, leaving accumulations of olivine. Olivine is really dark though, so you don't notice it's green unless you pick it up and look at individual grains.:colorful:

mol

December 8th, 2003, 04:55 PM

Well, sort of. When the volcano erupts, it oozes lava into the sea, where it cools rapidly, so only small crystals grow (slow cooling = big crystals). Most of the crystals are pyroxene and amphibole, longish black crystals. The others are roughly round dark yellowish - green olivine crystals. :sick: (Olivine smilie) Pyroxene and Amphibole weather (are broken up and or chemically altered) much more easily than olivine, so they wash away, leaving accumulations of olivine. Olivine is really dark though, so you don't notice it's green unless you pick it up and look at individual grains.:colorful:
Good grief! You are a nerd and a half! :p

So, why is it illegal to take that sand from the beach?

Rockprincess

December 9th, 2003, 11:32 AM

Good grief! You are a nerd and a half! :p

So, why is it illegal to take that sand from the beach?
Because if every tourist visitor to Hawaii took a handful of sand, there wouldn't be black sand beaches for very long, just crunchy half-eroded lava rock :fishsmack

You know, you don't realize HOW geeky you are at something until you start talking to people who don't know stuff about it! When you're in geology, everyone you meet is too (because the only place you meet people is in class!).

Ah well...:yourock: At least I get inordinate amount of pleasure out of geeky rock jokes :lol:

mol

December 10th, 2003, 10:59 AM

Because if every tourist visitor to Hawaii took a handful of sand, there wouldn't be black sand beaches for very long, just crunchy half-eroded lava rock
Well, doesnt more get produced naturally?

Rockprincess

December 10th, 2003, 03:59 PM

Well, doesnt more get produced naturally?
Yes, over tens of thousands of years :hmmmmm: Not quite quickly enough for the Hawaii Tourism Industry :lol: In geology, you get used to LOOOOOOOOONG time scales - someone says well, it took 10,000 years for that to happen, and I think, hmph, that's instantaneous. :rolleyes:

mol

December 12th, 2003, 10:19 AM

Yes, over tens of thousands of years :hmmmmm: Not quite quickly enough for the Hawaii Tourism Industry :lol: In geology, you get used to LOOOOOOOOONG time scales - someone says well, it took 10,000 years for that to happen, and I think, hmph, that's instantaneous. :rolleyes:
Well, I guess that makes sense then. Couldnt it been done...artificially? Or is that a taboo word. :2G:

Rockprincess

December 12th, 2003, 10:32 AM

Well, I guess that makes sense then. Couldnt it been done...artificially? Or is that a taboo word. :2G:My first thought was "snort" :lol: But then I thought about it for a few minutes, and thought it maybe could be done, using a combination of gentle agitation and chemical washing. But I don't think it would be worth it. I mean, it's just easier to tell people not to take the sand! :graduate: And I can't see any major economic inducement to justify the cost. (I work for an oil company. First and only real rule - unless it's going to make you money, don't bother.:money: ) (The soul-sucking elements of that facet of my life are fodder for an entire new discussion :hrmm: )

mol

December 12th, 2003, 03:39 PM

LMAO! Show me the money! I am right there with you. Say hello to another drone of corporate capitalism. Woot!

Rockprincess

December 15th, 2003, 11:13 AM

LMAO! Show me the money! I am right there with you. Say hello to another drone of corporate capitalism. Woot!
:wave: So nice to encounter fellow drones :lol:

Do you get to do things you like, at least? I get to go look at rocks about once a month, and make up pictures of what the world looked like millions of years ago on a regular basis, and that usually makes up for the horrendously awful business end of my job. :bouncingb (Is this guy based on the children in the mind-controlled planet from A Swiftly Tilting Planet?!)

Rockprincess

December 19th, 2003, 10:27 AM

With mol otherwise (happily) occupied, I'm feeling a little lonely over here...where are my fellow rockophiles?! :fpoke:

Trying to inspire some interest...here is a neat comparison of the history of the earth to an hour of time...
(from http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/clockstime.html )

http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/images/time460.gif

Rockprincess

December 19th, 2003, 12:22 PM

:fofftopic

mol, is this you?

mol (http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/mb26.html#mol) praise, advise, Irish molaim, Old Irish molid, laudat, Welsh moli, mawl, laus, Breton meuli: *molô, *mâlo, "magnify"; root mo@-l, mel, be strong; Greek @G (http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/conv.html#@G)mála, very; Latin melior, better; Lithuanian milns, very many, Ch.Slavonic iz-molêti, eminere (Stokes). Windisch has compared it to Church Slavonic moliti, ask, Lithuanian myleti, love, Greek @G (http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/conv.html#@G)méle, friend, @G (http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/MB2/conv.html#@G)meílihos, gentle. (http://www.ceantar.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi)I found that when i was looking up Friend in the gaelic dictionary, wondered if that was the source of your nick...:colorful:

Rockprincess

December 23rd, 2003, 10:00 AM

Apparently, I'm getting quite good at having rock conversations all by myself! LOL!

http://www.rebbit.photoshot.com/scotpano/aug02/smalls/eilean3s.jpg

Now there's the kind of rock I REALLY like...the kind with a castle on it! :lol:
(Eilean Donan Castle - the most photographed castle in Scotland)

mol

December 30th, 2003, 09:25 AM

:wave: So nice to encounter fellow drones :lol:

Do you get to do things you like, at least? I get to go look at rocks about once a month, and make up pictures of what the world looked like millions of years ago on a regular basis, and that usually makes up for the horrendously awful business end of my job. :bouncingb (Is this guy based on the children in the mind-controlled planet from A Swiftly Tilting Planet?!)
I get loads of little electronic toys...but I guess the big deal is I get to MAKE all kinds of electronic toys. :D

mol

December 30th, 2003, 09:25 AM

mothwench

December 30th, 2003, 06:34 PM

With mol otherwise (happily) occupied, I'm feeling a little lonely over here...where are my fellow rockophiles?! :fpoke:

hi rockprincess! i'm glad i'm not the only one who talks to herself! :lol: actually i do have some rock talk for ya... been thinking about making a witches rosary, somebody in arts and crafts wrote about it... have you seen the thread?

rockprincess, are you the person to ask if i want to get myself a stone or crystal, and want to know about the mining conditions and the environmental effects of mining these rocks?

Rockprincess

January 4th, 2004, 12:41 AM

hi rockprincess! i'm glad i'm not the only one who talks to herself! :lol: actually i do have some rock talk for ya... been thinking about making a witches rosary, somebody in arts and crafts wrote about it... have you seen the thread?

rockprincess, are you the person to ask if i want to get myself a stone or crystal, and want to know about the mining conditions and the environmental effects of mining these rocks?
Hi Mothwench! Sorry, I've been away for a bit.

You can certainly ASK me about stones and crystals, but I won't know all the answers (ovbiously):elf: I haven't seen the witch rosary thread, I will go look it up. :spaceman:

Rockprincess

January 4th, 2004, 12:42 AM

Nope. Its an acronym.

Madman of Light
:lol: Oh, ok then...I hope you don't mind if I keep both that AND the definition I found in mind ;)

mol

January 6th, 2004, 10:42 AM

:lol: Oh, ok then...I hope you don't mind if I keep both that AND the definition I found in mind ;)
Lmao!

mol

January 6th, 2004, 10:43 AM

Your sig has red x's.

Rockprincess

January 6th, 2004, 10:47 AM

Weird, it has pretty celtic knots on my computer at work, but red x's everywhere else. :whatgives

mothwench

January 6th, 2004, 03:23 PM

Hi Mothwench! Sorry, I've been away for a bit.

You can certainly ASK me about stones and crystals, but I won't know all the answers (ovbiously):elf: I haven't seen the witch rosary thread, I will go look it up. :spaceman:
i bumped the thread, it's in arts and crafts and amethyst rose started it. :)

okay, for starters i want to get a smokey quartz and a moonstone. are they p.c.? ;)
what i want to know is, e.g., if i buy any of these stones, am i contributing to the reckless eradication of the smokey quartz dwelling earth-cricket? :spaceman:

well something like that, anyway, you know what i mean... no, i'm trying to be funny here, but only cause i haven't got a clue about these things... all i know is, sometimes... stones r bad, mmmkay?
i know alot of people poo-pooed that thread in political pagan about diamonds, but it certainly got me thinking...

um, just a thought... i'm sort of assuming that the more expensive a stone is, the harder it is to get at, or the rarer it is, so in my rusty logic that must mean that the mining of the cheaper stones entails less ecological damage... :huh: yesno?

mol

January 7th, 2004, 09:52 AM

Weird, it has pretty celtic knots on my computer at work, but red x's everywhere else. :whatgives
Heh. it works now. I loaded one of the graphics up individually and now they all work.

Rockprincess

January 7th, 2004, 10:42 AM

Heh. it works now. I loaded one of the graphics up individually and now they all work.
Ah, you're a doll. Thanks :hugz:

Rockprincess

January 7th, 2004, 10:49 AM

okay, for starters i want to get a smokey quartz and a moonstone. are they p.c.? ;)
what i want to know is, e.g., if i buy any of these stones, am i contributing to the reckless eradication of the smokey quartz dwelling earth-cricket? :spaceman:
****
um, just a thought... i'm sort of assuming that the more expensive a stone is, the harder it is to get at, or the rarer it is, so in my rusty logic that must mean that the mining of the cheaper stones entails less ecological damage... :huh: yesno?
Well, let's see. Quartz and feldspar (of which moonstone is a variety) are very very common minerals.

Large amounts of Amethyst (which is quartz with iron impurities) is mined by independant people around Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. People just have big plots of land with lots of rock on it, and they try blasting it to see if there's amethyst inside, and there often is, in that area. A lot of amethyst comes from Brazil as well. People make a living out of scouring the mountainsides there for large roundish looking stones which, when broken open, house crystals of all kinds. There's actually not a huge amount of "mining" that goes into that kind of thing.

Other stones, like feldspars, are the by-products of other mining operations. It's when you start getting into stones that grow as discrete crystals (rubies, sapphires, diamonds) within other rocks that you start having intensive mining.

So, basically you are right. Quartz and moonstone are very unlikely to have caused major ecological damage in their collection, while more "precious" stones are more likely to have caused some.

That's as much as I know, really...if you're interested in a specific stone, you can ask the dealer what the source is and then research it. :colorful:

mothwench

January 7th, 2004, 11:33 AM

cool, thanks. hey, btw... i see red x's as well... :sadman: aw, i like pretty celtic knotty stuff!

Rockprincess

January 8th, 2004, 10:19 AM

You see red x's even though mol fixed it? :eek:

mol

January 12th, 2004, 09:42 AM

You see red x's even though mol fixed it? :eek:
Hmm.

Works fine here.

Rockprincess

January 12th, 2004, 01:35 PM

Hmm.

Works fine here.
I just took them out, because they weren't working on my home computer either :whatgives Oh well!

Now let's see...what kind of fun rocks can we discuss today?!

How about...Mars rocks. What do you think they'll find? :hmmmmm: I think they'll find...rocks. I don't think they'll find signs of life, because even if there were the very vestiges of beginning life in the early years of our solar system, Mars cooled down too long ago for it to have developed very far.

They're welcome to prove me wrong though :lol:

mol

January 15th, 2004, 10:01 AM

Didnt they see evidence of algea?

Rockprincess

January 15th, 2004, 11:00 AM

Did they? In the rocks? :hmmmmm:

The trouble is, it's often hard to tell the difference between rocks made by certain ancient algae/bacteria, and a certain sedimentary process. Especially when you don't actually get to look at the rock, you just have pictures and radio-ed back robot analysis.

I would be interested, though, if they do find any kind of bacterial trace - it would show that life is capable of being created independently in more than one place, under the same conditions. (Mars and Earth were very similar, 4 billion years ago)

mol

January 15th, 2004, 11:54 AM

I didnt know they were similar billions of years ago...what happened?

Rockprincess

January 15th, 2004, 07:01 PM

I didnt know they were similar billions of years ago...what happened?
Well at about 4.5 billion years ago, all the Earth was (and Mars too) was a big roiling ball of lava, with a very thin cover of hardened lava, that moved around and broke and crashed into itself. By about 4 billion years ago, things had cooled off enough that the crust was much thicker and water had condensed out of the gaseous vapours from the lava, and there were oceans.

Unfortunately for Mars, it has a few disadvantages.

2) It is slightly smaller than Earth, which meant 2 things; it had a harder time holding on to it's atomospheric gasses (less gravity), and it's internal heat is not as great (fewer radioactive elements overall)
2) It's further from the sun, so by ~3.5 billion years ago, it was darned cold on the surface, and any free water froze

Apparently, these factors combined resulted in Mars losing most of it's atomosphere, and in the system of plate tectonics breaking down (there is no more geological movement there, as far as we can tell, and there hasn't been for a few billion years at least). So no more gasses are being released to increase the atmosphere...and the atmosphere that is there isn't thick enough to encourage a greenhouse effect...even if it was close enough to the sun.

So it seems like the conditions were right for life to have begun, but then they short circuited. :whatgives Sucks to be martian, I guess :spaceman:

mol

January 22nd, 2004, 09:52 AM

Very interesting. Its funny, but it makes earth sound like a petry dish.

Myrddyn Emrys

January 22nd, 2004, 09:53 PM

Very interesting. Its funny, but it makes earth sound like a petry dish.
Yup, that's us, a science experiment gone way wrong!:fishtank:

mol

January 23rd, 2004, 10:20 AM

Yup, that's us, a science experiment gone way wrong!:fishtank:
:D

mol

January 26th, 2004, 09:51 AM

So, what else can we talk about?

mol

January 27th, 2004, 09:31 AM

Bueller?

Rockprincess

January 27th, 2004, 11:21 AM

Very interesting. Its funny, but it makes earth sound like a petry dish.
It isn't?!:shhhh:

:lol:

Do you mean that you beleive evolution is divinely directed?

mol

February 2nd, 2004, 10:01 AM

It isn't?!:shhhh:

:lol:

Do you mean that you beleive evolution is divinely directed?
Eh...not really.

Ouroboros

February 2nd, 2004, 09:15 PM

Eh...not really.

Blargh: Evolution is Self Directed :jamsessio

mol

February 3rd, 2004, 10:23 AM

Blargh: Evolution is Self Directed :jamsessio
Self-directed?

Rockprincess

February 3rd, 2004, 10:26 AM

Self-directed?
Yes, do elaborate :)

mol

February 4th, 2004, 09:55 AM

Yes, do elaborate :)
This forum seems to be moving very slowly.

Like a rock.

Ouroboros

February 4th, 2004, 06:06 PM

This forum seems to be moving very slowly.

Like a rock.

At some point in time, beings in creation become aware that one is not seperate from the creator.

Where in this waveform universe, one can perceive the self as not only the self but the All. Or for a lack of a better term, the self becomes All That Is. One with everything.

So in order to evolve perse, one might perceive the evolution (human or whatever) as a act of acheivement, or moment of change, through the self.

Rockprincess

February 4th, 2004, 06:19 PM

This forum seems to be moving very slowly.

Like a rock.
I get tired of talking to myself. I keep hoping someone else will say something more than one sentence long ;)

Like Ouroboros, for example. Nice summary of your thoughts - it could use a bit more explanation though. ;)

Ouroboros

February 4th, 2004, 06:48 PM

I get tired of talking to myself. I keep hoping someone else will say something more than one sentence long ;)

Like Ouroboros, for example. Nice summary of your thoughts - it could use a bit more explanation though. ;)

Like an art peice, I feel more inspiration is done through letting the viewer find their own personal meaning.

mol

February 5th, 2004, 09:58 AM

Like an art peice, I feel more inspiration is done through letting the viewer find their own personal meaning.
Ok, but what does this have to do with rocks?

Rockprincess

February 5th, 2004, 01:55 PM

Like an art peice, I feel more inspiration is done through letting the viewer find their own personal meaning.
I'm afraid I'm too lazy for that. I want to know specifically how you think evolution began :)

Ok, but what does this have to do with rocks?
That's funny - evolution and rocks are inextricably tied in my head! I didn't even notice that we'd drifted :fofftopic !!! :lol:

Ouroboros

February 5th, 2004, 03:54 PM

That's funny - evolution and rocks are inextricably tied in my head! I didn't even notice that we'd drifted !!! :lol:

Actually we have not even drifted, this is the appropriate place to talk about evolution and crystalline structures. Crystalline structures are just perfectly content just receiving and transmitting data across the universe. They experience whole lifetimes without having to incarnate. You have already noticed in Magick work of any sort, crystals are like amplifiers and make thoughts and incantations seriously potent.

In regards to my comment about self-directed evolution, if you're already too lazy to try and find meaning in it for yourself, perhaps in light of "the great co-magicians: crystals", you might find more meaning in it after reading the above paragraph.

Sure us dragon-persona's tend to be filled with riddles, but given time we always have some great wisdom locked within our riddles. Consider the riddles themselves a "guardian of the treasure".

:floating: