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Here’s one of my biggest ammonite surprises lately!! 🐊🏝 I genuinely had no idea that ALL of these ammonites would be inside! What a feeling when it opened up 😍🤯 Excellent hammer blow by my brother and ‘personal trainer’ Shae!
Damn you, Sheryl.
This is a very nice pick. It seems to have a plastic handle which is good to avoid any slipping and it is also made of a pretty solid metal. 9/10
A desPICKable pick (get it???) it has a very straight wooden handle which doesn’t seem ergonomic at all and it also seems to be made of black plastic??? like come on, we’re not hitting iron nails here or something, we’re trying to break rocks with this thing. Disgusting. 1/10
Although the handle is not ergonomic, the rest of the pick seems to have a high quality and looks semi-useful overall. 6/10
This is our first two-dimensional píck. You will find it useful if you inhabit a 2D world like Terraria, although you would need way too many pixels for this one. 7/10
Now this is what i call a fucking piece of shit. Even if you were in a 2D world, the curvature between both ends of the head is too high. It’s probably useful for plowing land but that’s it. 0/10
Although small in size, this looks like a strong pick. I’m assuming it is made of platinum, which gives it its shiny white color but also makes it very very heavy. The handle is perfectly made and the overall design is perfectly balanced. 10/10
yorkshire.fossils
Here’s an ammonite nodule (rock) we broke open! 😍☀️ This fossil, along with others in the video, had fallen from towering cliffs 🏔 🏝 We used some of our oldest and most faithful ammonite hammers and chisels to carefully open it ⚒🔬 With just a few hits the rock gave way and revealed the beautiful prehistoric creature inside 🙉🦕
Ha, finally found this comic. The original page has been pulled, but I’ve been looking for this in the archives for a while! -JBB Image credit: B.D. (creative commons licensed) https://www.flickr.com/photos/2d-comic/3345015970/
scientifiquesshop
Here is a work in progress. An etched copper plate of Uintacrinus fossil crinoids attached to an art block. The body of the fossil is hammered and formed and the block is edged in metallic tape. It will be available soon in my Etsy shop- www.etsy.com/shop/scientifiques
Unearthing an ammonite in Tamil Nadu National Park, India
This unique geological formation is located approximately 18 miles east of Butte and north of I-90. The rocks in this unique geologic area chime when tapped lightly with a hammer. It is believed that the ringing is a combination of the composition of the rock and the way the joining patterns have developed as the rocks have eroded away, if a boulder is removed from the pile, it doesn't ring. Please don't disturb this natural phenomenon!
Break open your own geode at the Childrens Hands-On Museum of Alabama.
This is the incorrect way to use one of these hammers. You never hammer with the back side as metal shards can fly off. You use the back side for prying.
N 3deg37'06" E 35deg13'01" Turkana County Phonolite ring dyke
Neat video of hammering on rocks in Africa - demonstration of the meaning of the word “phonolite”
Turkana, Kenya, 2012
An unusual sceptre In the trade the name does not refer to one of the accoutrements of office of your average king, but to a type of crystal with a thin handle and a larger end, usually made of quartz and often wielded as some kind of magic wand. Every now and again an example appears composed of two minerals, like this near perfect cube of pyrite sitting atop a prism of quartz. It is probable that they didn't crystallise together, but that the pyrite grew onto a preexisting crystal as sulphide laden fluids passed through the rocks containing the prism. Loz Image credit: Carlin Greene, USGS
You know, I honestly don’t know what is being done here to prep this fossil either, but there’s a rock hammer, it’s limestone, and it’s tagged as an Icthyosaur
Geo-Christmas Sweater!!!!!!!!!
Brown lower portion: Pre-1974 Taal eruption, crossbedded tuff
Dark upper portion: Pyroclastic fall deposit of 1974 Taal eruption
#geology #volcano #taal
Taal Volcano, Philippines.
Ohio to Cumberland Gap Geology
Like tagging along on a field trip.
