We have spent many summers digging dinosaur bones in Wyoming! The Native American word for Wyoming, mecheweaming, means “at the big flat”. A very accurate description of ...
Oregon Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Oregon is known for jaspers, agates, thundereggs, and petrified wood. Oregon's terrain varies from beaches to pine covered mountains to barren desert. Graveyard Point Plume, Priday, Stinkin ...
Montana Rocks and Minerals - (Page) Montana is The Treasure State, fitting for its rocks and minerals. Montana Agate is probably the most well known rock from Montana! Montana Agate comes from near the Yellowstone River in Mon ...
Nebraska Rock and Minerals - (Page)Nebraska is not a great state for finding gem grade rocks and minerals. Nebraska is a part of the Great Plains, with its plain sloping from northwest to southwest, including rich farmlands in the ea ...
Brazil Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Brazil is of huge importance in the world of rocks and minerals. In fact, Brazil is the world’s fifth largest mineral producer. Brazil is the world's largest producer (22% of world productio ...
Alabama Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Though Alabama isn’t really known for its rocks, it actually is rich in pretty rocks! About 190 different minerals have been found in Alabama. The southern half of Alabama is a coastal ...
Tennessee Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Tennessee has more mineral resources than any other state east of the Mississippi, except North Carolina. Limestone and dolomite, bituminous coal, lead, zinc, ball clay, sand and gravel, phosphate, ...
Metaphysical Defintion and Healing Crystals - (Page)Metaphysical Meanings on Rocks, Crystals and Minerals What is metaphysics? Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular ...
Georgia Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Georgia has rocks of almost every geological period exposed. So, it is not surprising that Georgia has a large variety of rocks and minerals. The southern half of the state is part of the coas ...
Chapenite - (Page)Chapenite is a nodular fine grained brecciated jasper from Ft. Irwin, in the Mojave Desert, California, south of Barstow. Brecciated Jasper means the jasper has broken or fragmented patterns ...
State Gemstones, Rocks, Fossils and Minerals - (Page)What is my state's official state rock, mineral, or fossil? Alabama designated Hematite as the state mineral in 1967, Hematite as the state rock in 1969, and Star Blue Quartz as the state ge ...
Origin of Rock Names - (Page)Origin of Names for Rocks and Minerals How do rocks and minerals get their names? Rock and Mineral names can be traced quite often to Greek and to Latin. It is common practice to add an "ite" to ...