#geology of poland

[galswintha]

It's official! Skalickie Skałki (Skalice Rocks) confirmed as the oldest rock outcrop in entire Poland. Made of sillimanite gneisses they were said to be even a billion years old, but current estimations are closer to 600 mln yrs.

[velespaleoart]

Paleozoo enclosure based on the Owadów locality in Poland.

[er-cryptid]

Halite

Natural History Museum of Denmark, Mineral Hall

[kayl0ser]

Wieliczka Salt Mine

February 2024

[blossom-pl]

Found last year on the coast of Baltic Sea. I think it was Dziwnów!

[tiredwitchplant]

Everything You Need to Know About Crystals: Chrysoprase

The Stone of Venus

Requested by @acovenoftwo

Chemical Formula:  SiO2

Color: Apple green, lemon

Rarity: Easy to obtain as a tumble stone, finer quality is expensive

Hardiness: 7

Type: Chalcedony

Chakra Association: Heart and Solar Plexus

Deities: Venus

Birthstone: May

Astrological Signs: Gemini, Taurus

Element: Water

Planet: Mercury

Origin: Formerly Poland, Now Australia, Brazil, Madagascar, Russia, Tanzania, USA

Powers: Encouraging development, Compassion, Tolerance, Growth, Forgiveness, Connection to Nature

Crystals It Works Well With: Mountain “jade”, Tourmaline, Smokey Quartz

How It is Created: Chrysoprase is a type of chalcedony quartz with a microcrystalline structure. Its color comes from nickel deposits, and it can be found in pale shades through to brighter green. Raw pieces have a granular appearance, similar to pieces of coconut, and a waxy sheen when polished.

History: Chrysoprase, called Stone of Venus because in antiquity it represented the goddess of divine love, the famous Venus, is a magnificent apple-green nickeliferous chalcedony belonging to the family of microcrystalline quartz. The ancient Egyptians also used chrysoprase for practical purposes such as sealing letters, but they would also wear pendants, amulets and other jewelry made of chrysoprase. For hundreds of years, the only major source of chrysoprase was a region of southwestern Poland between the Czech Republic and Germany, formerly known as Lower Silesia. This area has a complex geology and is extremely rich in all kinds of mineral deposits, including gold, silver, serpentine, quartz, marble, granite, alabaster—and chrysoprase. Stone artifacts from as far back as the Iron Age show the long history of Silesian carving and masonry. In the eighteenth century, Frederick II, King of Prussia (now part of Germany), conquered Lower Silesia. In particular, he wanted its deposits of green chrysoprase, which he used to decorate the halls of his favorite palace at Potsdam near Berlin.

What It Can Do:

Known as the healer of the heart space and helps connect you with infinite supply of compassion and love

Supports cardiac health and provides a centered peace

Helps people suffering from melancholy and manifests optimism and joy

Can be placed by homegrown herbs and vegetables to boost production

Perfect to artist as it increases creativity and talent

Encourages fidelity, forgiveness, compassion, and nonjudgmental thinking in relationships, while banishing greed and selfishness

Helps with inducing deep meditative states and promotes the love of truth

Calming and nonegotistical, creating openness in new situations

Stimulates fluent speech and mental dexterity, preventing you from speaking out unthinkingly in anger

Lifts oppressive and recurrent images, preventing nightmares, especially in children

Is said to detoxify heavy metals in one’s body and stimulate liver function

Is said to enhance fertility, reverse effects of infertility that are caused by infection and guard against STIs

Increases the absorption of Vitamin C

How to Get the Best Out Of: Wear as a necklace, bracelet, earrings or even use it in an elixir. Carrying chrysoprase for long periods attunes to the devic realm, a band of frequency found present on Earth which can connect you to nature and the planet directly

How to Cleanse and Charge: Can be cleansed briefly under running water then recharged overnight among a host of rock crystals for a few weeks. Cleanse during a rain shower for optimized cleansing,

Crystal Grid:

Healing for Children (Nightmares)

Shape: Fruit of Life

• 6 “issue” or calming stones

• 4 grounding crystals

• 2 light-bringing crystals

1. Hold your crystals in your hands and state your intention for the grid.

2. Lay the central keystone to represent your child.

3. Lay six crystals around the keystone to assist with the challenge or issue. (These crystalscan either represent a single issue, or different ones—whichever feels best to you. However,it may be more effective to address separate issues by laying individual grids.)

4. Lay four grounding crystals to anchor the grid at each corner of the “square.”

5. Lay a light-bringing crystal at the top and bottom.

6. Leave in place until the issue or issues have been resolved, remembering to cleanse thegrid regularly.

Crystals to use: Chrysoprase, Amethyst, Prehnite, Bloodstone

Sources

[vynnovation]

These folks are a few examples of what I call « Biosomae ». I’ve been doodling them for ages, and I have a few ideas of how I’d eventually like to use them in a larger narrative. But for now they mostly exist as collections of doodle pages. Like this one, for example, which I drew during a weekend in Toronto for a congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

A Biosoma is generally recognized by their humanoid face/head with landscapes and other forms of nature rearing out of them. I like to imagine that these beings are huge, that each one is to-scale with the natural features of which they are composed.

The ones with trees jutting from their brows live in cliff faces and hilltops, where their heads sit like highland peaks rising from the earth.

The blue one in the middle is so large that their skull crests into an entire mountain range. Perhaps they slumber beneath the surface of the earth. (They certainly don’t look too happy to be woken up!)

By this logic, the yellow prairie-themed one in the bottom right is smaller, since the grasses they grow on their head are no more than a couple feet tall. But perhaps this is deceptive … maybe if you wander too long in the wheat and brush of the prairies you’ll eventually encounter a solitary hill growing huge stalks, many meters tall. And perhaps that hill might smirk at you.

The orange one in the top right is a bit of an outlier from what I would usually consider a Biosoma. Their birdlike features split into the half-remembered anatomy of a hawk’s wing. This might mean that they’re not a Biosoma at all. Or perhaps they are a different type, one inhabiting the smaller world of beasts and birds rather than the larger world of geology and dendrology. To be determined.

Obviously the Biosomae are inspired by old legends and folklore involving giants and other beings that sleep beneath the earth or that have been turned to stone. Closest to my heart, I think of Roche Bonhomme, « Old Man Mountain », a peak located just north of my hometown of Jasper, Alberta. But there are many such examples all over the world, from the Old Man of Hoy in northern Scotland, to the Giewont of Poland (a sleeping knight), to the Pedro da Gávea in Brazil or Lion Rock in Hong Kong. I think many more character designs such as Tolkien’s ents or even the interpretation of Te Fiti in Disney’s Moana influence my tendency to doodle these folks.

That’s all for today! Follow for more Goblines, Biosomae, Quicktrees and Poetry.

[themarginalthinker]

I put way too much thought into my fic and now my plate is loaded with the following in order to even fucking write it:

-research the history of Poland/Lithuania from 1600s to the mid 1800s

-research what the hell mushrooms even are

-research the basic geology of Minnesota

-write a philosophical essay about fungi and the nature of being your own creation that cannot share the truth of being as you are with anything else because you're NOT anything else and truth itself can only ever be subjective

-learn what the fuck a LAN is

[haltraveler]

The issue with this line of thinking is it takes for granted just how much of our understanding of the world comes from contextual knowledge rather than individual intelligence.

One example I like to use is fossils. People have been finding fossils for as long as there have been people, but you need a lot of understanding of other fields to recognize what they actually are.

In Poland, dinosaur tracks were thought to be the Devil’s footprints. This isn’t because the people there were stupid, but what else were they supposed to think? They had no way of knowing that the world was as old as it was, let alone that giant reptiles lived there 200 million years earlier! Ammonite shells were thought to be petrified snakes because that’s the closest thing to them that the farmers and miners who found them would have encountered. In China, fossils were thought to be dragon bones, not because they were primitive or superstitious but because unless you’re working with a comprehensive background of geology it’s pretty hard to imagine a non magical way for bones to be embedded in rocks!

Now as you mention this is not a linear march of progress. Different people have access to different information at different times. There’s some compelling evidence that the Sioux were able to recognize the bones of Mosasaurs as those of extinct snakelike aquatic reptiles independently from European knowledge of extinction and fossilization. But people seek patterns and if we don’t have all the pieces it’s easy for our minds to go crazy when presented with something which seems impossible to explain.

And remember, this “sky pirate” stuff isn’t really that different from stuff that modern people believe. We just dress it up in sci fi language now and call them UFOs

so apparently in 815 CE there was a common belief that sky pirates sailed ships in the clouds and (working in collaberation with frankish weather wizards) stole all the crops that got damaged in storms and took them back to the cloud realm of magonia.

And this was apparently a common enough belief that an archbishop felt the need to write a treatise to debunk it and insist that only god controls the weather, which is the only reason we know about it.

there are three important points to take from this, i think

This is great inspiration for your next dnd game

Tropes that might seem relatively modern (like airship pirates) can often actually go WAY back

The stuff your average medieval christian actually believed in will often have very little resemblance to christianity. And thats before you even get to the proper heretics. EDIT: people keep asking for the source and its now been added multiple times in different reblog chains. I should have put it in the original post but i am a fool: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/Agobard-OnHailandThunder.asp

[galswintha]

Bagieniec village lies on the line of the Tertiary Bagieniec-Paszowice fault, which is the north-western border of the Strzegom - Sobótka granite massif. Strzelnica hill, towering over the village, is the raised wing of this fault, built of the Paleozoic granite intrusion of Carboniferous age. The depressed part in which Bagieniec is located belongs to the Roztoka-Mokrzeszów Graben, filled with sediments of the Tertiary and Quaternary period.

The outcrops of Strzelnica hill show granite rocks called the Strzegom granite and products of their weathering.

[hydralisk98]

For '(expt 16 12), Karalis V5

PREFACE

Greetings, this is only a mere sketch for my constructed world stuff, again... It is still a manifestation and political advocacy exercise but I would think that it is also a decent reflection of my worldview and a nice educational "grasp-the-world & iterate" method.

Granted, the following only have temporary labels due to further work yet to be done for the whole project "backend" (especially the linguistics and overtly immersive parts of it all). I am still iterating with some Civilization 5 & Stellaris playthroughs as baseline inspo, alongside a couple textual referee documents to assist this "frontend" of sorts.

So yeah... enjoy your stay.

First twelve "Major" Civs

Shoshones

Mayas

Morocco

Brazil

Poland

Incas

Babylon

Assyria

Netherlands / Venice?

Portugal

Korea

Carthage

Last eight "Major" Civs

Aremorica

Samoa

Inuit

Vietnam

Sumer

Angola

Hittites

Minoans

FourtyEight(48)-to-Sixty-Four(64) "Minor" Civs aka City-States

?

Cultures

Eyn = Levantine

Ibrad = Hungarian

Zebie = Basque

Tatari = Berber

Cao = Vietnamese

Shoshoni = Numic

Turchian = Turkish

Eqalen = Inuit

Tersun = Ruthenian

Temu = Nigerian

Hugues = English

Lueur = Mongolian

March = German

Teotlan = Nahuatl

Hawatcha = Korean

Ishtar = Mesopotamian

Taliyan = Iranian

Palche = Quechua

Aberku = Celtic

Sama = Polynesian

Medran = Castillian

Olivana = French

Bantnani = Karnataka

Syriac = Mesopotamian

Matipec = Mayan

Rzhev = Ruthenian

Matwa = Swahili

Hangzhou = Chinese

Chunhau = Cantonese

Mersuit = Inuit/Swedish

Treano = Italian

Arela = Portuguese

Hatris = Hittites / Lydians

Zapata = Byzantines / Mycenean Greeks

Nippir = Elam / Far-Eastern Mesopotamia

Irena = Minoan Greeks

Religions

Pohakantenna (Shoshoni / Numic pantheon)

Angakkunngurniq (Inuit pantheon)

Confucianism tradition (and dialects like Shinto…)

Al-Asnam (Celtic druidic pantheon)

Mwari Cult (Carib animistic pantheon)

Arianism (iterated from the defunct Christianity dialect)

Chaldeanism (Mesopotamian pantheon)

Calvinism (derived from the Protestant Reformation’s Huguenot Southern French, monotheism)

Tala-e-Fonua (Polynesian Samoan pantheon)

Hussitism (central slavic dialect of monotheism)

Jainism (communal humility & individualized ki monks culture)

Buddhism (inner way reincarnation & large monasteries)

Judaism

Zoroastrianism

Ibadiyya (Islam)

Canaanism (Carthaginian belief system)

Pesedjet (Numidan Hieroglyphics belief system)

Wakan Tanka (Blackfoot religion)

Intiism (Inca pantheon)

Tzolk'in (Mayan pantheon)

States

(~ to be written)

END

Worldbuilding revision workflow preview #1...

Galactic & meta-physical considerations (helps the mythological and Stellaris stages tremendously);

Micro-paracosms experimentations;

Stellar system conception

Interstellar neighbourhood;

Star design;

Orbits design;

Habitable planet(s) & Terrestrials;

Ice & gas giants;

Moons;

Habitable world conception

Albedo, atmospheric, tides & other key specifications;

GPlates & GProjector / geology stages;

Speculative biology / lively evolution stages;

Sapient life history simulationism runs stage (social life simulacres aka Firaxis' Civ 5 + FreeCiv);

Stellaris & post-Stellaris narratively-focused stages;

GLOSS systemic multimedia animated story-telling stage;

QGIS + OSM "present-day" geofiction stage;

Dreamworld, shifting sessions and manifestation life scriptings stage;

[mineralsandsomerocks]

Selenite Gypsum

Locality: Lubin Mine, Gmina Lubin, Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

[elodieunderglass]

I definitely have looked at that post and many similar posts and been so, so good about not saying anything.

It is definitely funny that people pick and choose what they believe to be the Ultimate Ecosystem, and then try to impose that picture on the living Earth.

They’re like, “the ultimate ecosystem has ancient named oak trees that are 500 years old and are covered in moss, that’s what the earth should look like everywhere. That’s what you should rewild your american yard to be. That’s what you’re aiming for.”

So I’m dubiously holding up the moodboard pictures they’ve chosen of like, ancient woodland from the UK, maybe Białowieża Forest in Poland/Belarus if they’ve unexpectedly stumbled upon especially mossy pictures on Pinterest, going “you’re sure? You’re sure the temperate primeval forest of Europe is what you want to terraform all over the planet? You know this takes several hundred years of intimate relationships between species and geology to achieve?” Like a contractor mildly worried by someone’s decision to put a washing machine in a dining room.

“Yes! And now put in all the creatures I have in my personal home state. Like my specific snakes and things.”

I look at their home state. I look at the mood board. I say, “They might not like it.”

“I’m fixing it. The uk has only three native species of snakes, which is just bad stewardship.”

“But you also want the UK’s … moss?”

“Yes, it’s the most aesthetic, which is good stewardship.”

“But you’re sort of mixing in some continental European geography into the fantasy here.”

“Yes, it’s the ultimate ecosystem. Maybe just copy and paste that whole thing from before the Europeans screwed everything up and killed all their snakes.”

“They don’t - that’s not - look, this is a primeval Polish forest where they have only five native snakes,” I say weakly. “They, that’s - that’s their ecosystem. That’s. That’s it.”

“We’re teaching them better. This is the ultimate ecosystem. It’s going to have moose. We’ll airdrop them over.”

“They have those in Europe,” I say helpfully, “so you can save on transport.”

“What do you mean?”

“Moose are indigenous to the ‘top part’ of the planet, so there’s sort of a belt of native moose around the North Pole - they’re one of the old ‘land bridge’ type megafauna. They’re actually more densely populated in Norway than Alaska.”

“Hmm! Maybe just copy and paste the Norwegian ecosystem over then.”

I bite a nail. “Norway only has three native species of snakes.”

“Well, and aren’t they sad about that? Don’t they know they’re missing out?”

“I think they comfort themselves with the fact that they do have Jörmungandr…”

“Wait,” my colleague is frowning, suddenly aware of the presence of an ocean of information on the edge of their own knowledge. “Why is it that the exact same species of moose are native around the world in a belt shape, but snakes aren’t everywhere?”

“That’s one of the exciting first principles of speciation!” I say brightly and excitedly, suddenly unpacking a PowerPoint. It was all a trap! “The pressures of climate, geography and geology on the constraints of evolutionary biology are what shape the relationships of ecosystems! Wait! Come back!”

im not like. '''''sad'''' about living in a country that doesn't have a lot of snakes. its cold up here we don't have a lot of reptiles, we also don't have a lot of big bugs. why would you want every single part of the world to have the same climate and the exact same flora and fauna??

[supernova-mnrls]

Siderite is an iron carbonate mineral found in various parts of the world.

Its name comes from the Greek word “sideros,” meaning “iron.”

However, what makes this mineral truly fascinating are the enigmatic Floaters found within some of its crystallizations.

Learn More here 👇 👇 👇

https://www.supernovaminerales.com/minerals/siderite-the-iron-mineral-with-mysterious-floaters/

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[gemhunters]

Baryte

⚒ Location: Kopalnia Lubin, Lubin, KGHM, Dolny Śląsk, Poland

📸 More photos: https://minerali.rs/2022/02/04/baryte/