We are adding new rocks and minerals to our site every day this week. Up first is Dolomite!
Dolomite is a soft mineral of many colors. The mineral forms in ocean setting and hydrothermal veins
and is also associated with metamorphic rocks
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Welcome to TopoFusion.com Latest TopoFusion Headlines February 16, 2011 Massive GPS replay 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo February 1, 2011 TopoFusion Pro v4.1 Out October 22, 2010 TopoFusion Pro v4.05 released Elevation maps August 5, 2010 Outside interviews TopoFusion's Scott Morris TopoFusion is GPS Mapping software for Windows . It downloads maps Topo , Aerial Photo and Satellite automatically from several public map servers see : available imagery Please download and use the free version . It is fully functional except that 1 5th of the map tiles are obscured with the word DEMO and there is a limit of three files open at a time . It is not time limited , so you are free to keep and use it as long as you like . If you like what we are trying to accomplish with our software and would like to
: . Posterous Blog Back to posts Viewed times April 13, 2011 Petrified Colorado River flotsam : 5 Million years . old Edit Delete Tags Autopost An awesome find while mapping today . No . didn't take it out of the field . An extremely large and heavy rock . A museum piece for . sure Posted from Bullhead City , AZ Posted from Bullhead City , AZ Tweet 0 responses Like Comment
According to an intriguing 1826 map atlas, an unnamed river flowed from Great Salt Lake (also unnamed at the time) all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The atlas, titled Morse’s New Universal Atlas of the World on an Improved Plan of Alphabetical Indexes, Designed for Academies and Higher Schools, was recently donated to the [...]
Diamond is the hardest mineral, being a 10 on the Mohs hardness scale. Diamonds are found in igneous rocks called Kimberlites, which are formed deep underground (between 90 and 280 miles below the surface of the Earth). This photo shows cores of kimberlite rock from a drilling event. Rock cores are stored in core boxes for examination.
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Beautiful Bear Lake is called “the Caribbean of the Rockies” because of its vivid turquoise-blue water, but why is Bear Lake so Blue? A new booklet published by the Utah Geological Survey answers this and 16 other commonly asked questions about the lake.
The 41-page booklet is filled with dozens of photographs, maps, and figures. It [...]