Mineral Specimens and Textures

Close-up images of unique mineral specimens, highlighting their textures, colors, and compositions, including phosphates and other minerals.

USA, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Black Sand Basin. Detail of colorful thermophile bacteria mat.
USA, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Black Sand Basin. Detail of colorful thermophile bacteria mat.
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Nummulites carbonates showing in microscope
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Banded Agate, Quartzsite, AZ.
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Banded Agate, Quartzsite, AZ.
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Witherite, carbonate.
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Skull cap of a male which has cannibalised marks found at Gough's Cave, England. Dated 15th Century BC
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Chondrodite. minerals. North America; USA; New Jersey; Sussex County; Franklin District
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Marcellus Shale showing slickenside (polished surface) where it slid past another rock in a fault natural gas bearing rock gas extracted using controversial fracking or hydraulic fracturing New York, USA Date:
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Cuneiform tablet: im-ma-al-(la) gu de-de, balag ca. 175-174 B.C. Seleucid. Cuneiform tablet: im-ma-al-(la) gu de-de, balag 321972
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Margarosanite. minerals. North America; USA; New Jersey; Sussex County; Franklin; Franklin Quarry
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Cave explorer holds a sculpture from sandstone depositions in the hand
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mineral specimen stone rock geology gem crystal
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Scoria, Yellowstone, Wyoming, USA, North America
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Beautiful fortification pattern in slice of Laguna Lace Agate from near Ojo Laguna, Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Microscope Image of a Martian Soil Surface Sample
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MINERAL DE OBSIDIANA. Location: TALLER OBSIDIANA. MITLA. CIUDAD DE MEXICO.
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Australian gold nugget, photomicrograph
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Nymphs and larvae simulated on the walls of a cavity
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Top of one of the central domes in Maug caldera, covered in several different types of corals. From the Mariana Arc region, Western Pacific Ocean. Dated 2004
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Calcite & Willemite in UV Light, Buckwheat Dump, Franklin, NJ, USA, North America
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Amber in sun with inclusions. Amber in sun with inclusions
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Minerals: Granular serpentinite sandstone. Thin section. Crossed nicols.
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Amethyst. The purple crystals are a variety of the silica mineral quartz. Here they line a geode, a crystal-lined cavity in ancient lava. A variety of powers were attributed to amethyst including the ability to cure drunkeness.
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Auriferous sand from Ticino river, near Vigevano, Lombardy, Italy.
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Minerals and Rocks - Breccia. Madagascar
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Medieval saltworks in Salinas de Imon, Guadalajara, Castilla la Mancha, Spain
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Fossil of Crinoidei saccocoma, Echinoderms, Upper Jurassic.
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Australian gold nugget, photomicrograph
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Autunite under ultraviolet light
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Fragment of a vessel. A low curvature of the glass fragment allows the assignment to a vessel. At violet reason, a variety of small flowers can be seen, which are similarly built. Both yellow and white contours frame the core and the leaves of transparent flowers. For the production, different colored glasses into tubes and rods were formed. These were compressed and heated, causing a long bar. The glass sliced now had different amorphous or floral patterns. Subsequently, several of these platelets were fused, heated again and pressed into a vascular shape. Burry for the elaborate manufacturing process and its fragility included glass of the luxury articles of antiquity.
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Skull-shaped Puffball (Calvatia craniiformis) with falling acorns. Sequence 1 of 3
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The minerals are lit by ultraviolet light, which coverts a small amount of light into heat, and return the rest as visible light causing them to glow.
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Mice were injected with mouse sarcoma cells amd treated 3 days later when many micro-metastatic tumor foci were evident in the lungs. Lungs on the left were treated with saline. The lungs on the right were treated with lymphokine activated killer (LAK) cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Greater than 250 sarcoma metastases are seen in the lungs of saline treated mice. This number is significantly reduced to less than 12 in mice receiving LAK cells plus recombinant interleukin-2. Normal mouse l
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This radar image shows the Teide volcano on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands, part of Spain, are located in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco.
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Siderite. minerals. Europe; Romania; Oa; Satu Mare; Tur; Ghezuri mine
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Into a wreck In a wreck you can often find many shrimp Copyright: xZoonar.com/HaraldxSchottnerx 13206723
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Torbernite, phosphate, radioactive mineral.
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Pair of Mexican Laguna Banded Agate, Quartzsite, AZ. (Large format sizes available)
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Coprolite, Fossilized Dung
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Mimetite, Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, Central America
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Fluorite. minerals. North America; Mexico
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Banded Agate, Quartzsite, AZ.
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Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Table sugar (sucrose) crystals. Sucrose, or common table sugar (also called saccharose), is a disacchar...
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Ichnites Paleontological Deposit of Fuentesalvo, Villar del Rio, Ichnites Route of Highlands of Soria, Soria, Castile and Leon, Spain, Europe
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Banded Agate, Quartzsite, AZ.
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When green malachite and blue azurite occur together they are called 'azurmalachite'. Both are coloured by copper. 2014
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Opal - a blue-green veined ferruginous rock. From Australia
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Limonite crystals, Libyan Desert, Sahara Desert, Egypt.
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Clast-supported conglomerate at the base of the Miocene Furnace Creek Formation, Death Valley National Park, California.
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Relief map of Bhutan (with border and mask). This image was compiled from data acquired by landsat 5 & 7 satellites combined with elevation data.
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Italy, Sicily, Aeolian Islands, Island Of Vulcano. The Great Crater, Sulfur Deposits.
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Water lily stem, SEM
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Ootheca Wolleyana London, sold by R. H. Porter, 1864-1907. birds, eggs, Pandion haliaetus, This illustration showcases a series of eggs from various bird species, arranged in a neat row. Each egg displays unique patterns and coloration, ranging from mottled browns to lighter shades, demonstrating the diversity in avian egg morphology. The eggs are numbered and labeled, indicating their respective figures for reference. The meticulous detail highlights the variations in size, texture, and speckling that characterize the eggs, emphasizing their role in the natural history of birds.
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Cirrhotic liver, illustration
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Mars Pathfinder 'Filled Donut' Mosaic, Mars
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Ichnites Paleontological Deposit of La Matecasa, Spain Ichnites Paleontological Deposit of La Matecasa, Bretún, Ichnites Route of Highlands of Soria, Soria, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/AlxCarrerax 21386195