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Weekly Discussion: What's your favorite rock or mineral term? (lemmy.today)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/cool_rocks@lemmy.today
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It's okay cleavage at best.

A meme showing a clear, rectangular chunk of (possibly selenite?) rock with separation running along parallel and perpendicular straight lines. Text reads: "Oh yeah, that's some nice cleavage."

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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/geology.png

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    • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Wanna hear a joke about Sodium Bromide?

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    • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Cummingtonite

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    [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Scree

    It's just a gnarly word. It's like something a kaiju expels as a battle cry

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    [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I always liked the word karst. Came up through my work once, had to look it up, and I just like it.

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Marl

    MAAARL

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