#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

[supernova-mnrls]

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[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

[mygoodrabbit]

Please show us your nesting doll and polish fashion doll 🙏 (if you want)

(in reference to this post)

My painted ladies! The biggest matroyshka is about 7.5" tall and they get all the way down to about 1/4 of an inch. They were a gift from my aunt and uncle when I was little; my uncle was a geology professor (retired) and used to go to Poland once a year for something career related. They'd bring back matching cultural gifts for me and my cousins every time, so each of my cousins got nesting doll sets of the same quality and size but with different designs. I suspect I'm the only one of us who still has theirs.

I haven't been able to find the fashion doll, so I assume as the most humanoid, articulated doll in the house, she's begun the hunt.

[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

[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.

[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

[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;

[hvbglobal]

Advantages of studying in an international school

International Global schools in south Mumbai, are acquiring and greater ubiquity. Guardians and youngsters are drawn in by their fascinating educational plans adjusted to the necessities of an undeniably globalized society. The multicultural climate is helpful for creating resilience and growing information about different societies, as well as to molding delicate abilities, which are very significant in the advanced work market.

Advantages of international schools

Training in worldwide schools without a doubt enjoys many benefits. Its solidarity isn't just the execution of educational programs which are better adjusted to the necessities of the cutting edge work market and globalized society, yet in addition the multicultural climate. Beneath, we list the main benefits of concentrating on in global schools.

1. Global educational programs

As we referenced before, global schools offer training that is in accordance with unfamiliar training educational programs. Notwithstanding, a considerable lot of them consolidate components of more than one framework, e.g., an educational program in view of the Clean center improved with components of English, American and different frameworks. Such educational programs are many times much more qualified to the prerequisites of the worldwide work market.

An especially fascinating choice is the Worldwide Baccalaureate (IB) Program, which gets ready kids for the global recognition. Its objective is exhaustive instruction centered not just around growing information and abilities (both scholar and "delicate" — correspondence or social), yet in addition on the advancement of one's character and forming the mentalities of resistance, understanding, and obligation.

There are additionally confidential optional schools in Poland offering Progressed Arrangement (AP) courses. These courses were made by the School Board — an American relationship of various colleges and schools in the US, which additionally control the SAT test. The AP program is pointed toward conferring explicit information. There are 38 subjects to look over, including workmanship history, science, science, brain research, music hypothesis, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. An ideal decision for those understudies need to acquire top to bottom information in a particular field. Another extraordinary benefit is that some AP courses are perceived by esteemed colleges in the US and Canada (counting Harvard and Stanford). Because of this, you can fundamentally decrease costs and abbreviate your review time. AP tests likewise work with admission to these nations.

2. Learning dialects

As classes in global schools are directed in an unknown dialect (normally English), they give unprecedented open doors to the improvement of language abilities. These schools likewise offer an extensive variety of extra language classes: French, German, and Spanish, yet additionally dialects less well known in Poland, e.g., Japanese. Language abilities are affirmed with suitable declarations regarded from one side of the planet to the other, which is a major resource on the work market.

Both public and non-public schools with global classes are likewise obliged to instruct Clean. This offers outsiders the chance to grow their relational abilities, get to know the way of life more profound, and adjust to Clean culture. It additionally ensures that kids from Poland who go to the global class or school won't be behind in learning their local language, as well as Clean geology and history, in light of the fact that these classes are obligatory for them.

3. Own reviewing framework

Worldwide schools utilize unfamiliar educational programs, yet in addition evaluation frameworks utilized in different nations. They're much of the time seriously persuading and less upsetting for kids and youths than the exemplary framework (grade scale from 1 to 6) utilized in Poland. It ought to be recalled that in elementary schools, including global ones, kids are expected to take the Clean Grade 8 test.

4. Global climate

One of the best benefits of concentrating on in a global school is its multicultural climate. Understudies get to know different societies. On account of this, they foster the capacity to help out individuals who have various attributes, customs and social standards. They likewise learn resilience, shared regard, sympathy, and comprehension of others — their ways of behaving, inspirations, desires, and values. Such a climate assists with forming the residents of the world, who will effectively feel great anyplace.

5. More prominent open doors in the work market

Moving on from a worldwide school increments potential open doors in the worldwide work market. This is particularly valid for the Global Baccalaureate Program, exceptionally respected all over the planet. The IB recognition is perceived by most unfamiliar colleges and businesses view it well.

A certificate from a worldwide school permits an alumni to stick out and vouches for an elevated degree of information and capability, which gives the recognition holder a huge benefit over alumni of standard schools.

6. A large number of extracurricular exercises

Global schools are not just about fascinating, worldwide scholastic projects. They likewise offer a wide assortment of extracurricular exercises, which incorporate unknown dialect illustrations, sports, and imaginative exercises, like music, craftsmanship, dance, and photography.

A huge choice of these exercises permits the understudy to foster their inclinations, shape their interest of the world, and helps them to be deliberate in getting abilities and accomplishing objectives. On account of this, a worldwide school understudy has the chance to secure general and expert information, as well as to grow socially and genuinely .

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[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??