#ROCK FACTS

[gottalottarocks]

Rock Fact #1: The most common mineral in the earths crust isn’t quartz, but feldspar! When you look at a granite it’s the pink and white stuff.

[cleanbutsalty]

ITS ALMOST OCTOBER!!!

[gh0stbeeee]

Did you know that if you soak a raisin in grape juice, it turns into a grape?

That's a rock fact!

(I made the over the garden wall rock fact rock as cookies if you couldn't tell :D)

[catsandbats13]

I know it’s not fall yet but I wanted to post my OTGW fan art

I designed and drew this on my own! I of course referenced the show heavily for inspiration, like the title card and the objects along the border

It’s such an incredible show, I watch it every year and I’m always introducing it to people cause I need to share its greatness

[yagodichjagodic]

My ‘Over the Garden Wall’ collection is available now in my SHOP.

These took ages, but were totally worth it! I’m in love with how they turned out 💛

[loveandasandwich]

A proud mother and her children 🪨 ✨

Added a new throw pillow sized Rock Fact rock to my original listing! It was perfect timing to be made since I had a ‘litter’ of the original sized ones on hand to take these beautiful family photos.

Shop links here!

[bigfuckingrocksofficial]

rock fact #107:the first time a human smashed rocks together to sharpen them was actually the invention of what we today call "SEX"

[skenisasleb]

greg my bby ❤️

[lichen-thr0pe]

[rock-swag-tournament]

Preliminary Poll - Chalcedony

Agate and Jasper and Chalcedony, oh my!

This poll was originally going to be 2 separate polls distinguishing agate and jasper, but here's the thing. Agate and jasper are both chalcedony with very little to distinguish them except opacity vs translucency. Also, 2/3 agate submissions are not true agates because they don't have banding. So instead of having two polls, the top TWO chalcedony varieties from this poll will be entered into the competition.

With that, here are the competitors:

More information under the cut!

Chalcedony is cryptocrystalline silica. This means that it has a crystalline structure, but even at the microscopic scale, this structure is difficult to make sense of. Similar to opal, it is basically a fucked up quartz, and agate and jasper often have quartz along with chalcedony anyway.

Ocean jasper is a blue and green colored jasper that is found in Madagascar. It is opaque, which is partially what distinguishes jasper from other chacedony varieties like agate.

Bloodstone/heliotrope is a green jasper with small red dots that look quite a bit like blood splatters. However, they are just iron oxide (like rust).

Lake superior agate is white and red banded chalcedony and its bands are what make it an agate. It is found in many midwestern US states, especially those on the shores of Lake Superior. Its red color is due to iron staining (the same stuff that makes the red dots in heliotrope red)

Grape agate or grape chalcedony is not actually an agate at all! It is just chalcedony/microcrystalline quartz spheres with a botryoidal habit, which literally means it looks like a bunch of grapes! One of my top five favorite minerals, prehnite, also typically forms botryoidal clusters.

Moss agate is once again not an agate but chalcedony. It is usually white or clear with these green inclusions that look like little bunches of moss.

As always, any questions or additional information is always welcome!

[gottalottarocks]

Rock Fact #3:

These are the top eight most common elements in the earths crust. In order they are Oxygen, Silicon, Aluminum, Iron, Calcium, sodium, Magnesium, and Potassium. These are the building blocks of rocks!

[redvelvettecakes]

So I watched The Menu a month or maybe three months ago and it was really good. I'm shocked though because there's so little content for it I'm even more shocked that there's no fanfiction of Tyler Ledford and Julian Slowik! Tyler was begging this man for approval I thought AO3 and Tumblr would eat that shit up! I found one fic and it was really good but that's it! So I guess if anyone cares after I finish writing some other things I'm going to write a Tyler Ledford x Julian Slowik fanfiction! If enough people care I might post about my headcanons and stuff lmao

[coolrockfacts]

On this day in 1968, this photo was taken by the legendary photographer Brian Griffin. Contrary to popular belief, this photo is actually real.

[imtherain]

Geology Facts with Kail!

Ok, so I'm very likely to not be the only one who saw this, but the petrified orange that Stede finds and ends up splitting with his daughter? Not a real petrified orange (unsurprising I'm sure). But it *is* super cool still because it is a Thunder Egg!

Now what is a Thunder Egg? From a geology standpoint, they are a type of agate that resembles a geode (agate being a solid rock thing and geode usually being the sparkly hollow ones). These, like all agates, can actually be traced back to the bed/area they were found in based on appearance (and probably chemical/science stuff). If I had to guess the one used in the show is from is actually from Canada (based on some pictures and the fact that the thunder egg I own is Canadian and looks quite close).

Thunder Eggs can also be found, in two major locations in Australia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Ethiopia, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, and one specific mountain in France. And most famously (according to google) you can find several different types of Thunder Eggs in the state of Oregon, US. Some of these ones are named by the ranch they were found in because they vary so much between locations there.

Anywho, here's my Thunder Egg as proof I think I know what I'm talking about 💜

With love from a fangirl and a rock nerd

[yagodichjagodic]

Made Rock Facts earrings too ♥️

SHOP update will be Friday the 13th @ 8pm EST!

[ggmaslegendaryax]

Tell me about a rock pls

Hell yeah ok.

The gemstones ruby and sapphire are the same mineral: corundum (aluminum oxide, Al2O3). Corundum is the next hardest mineral after diamond.