Post by sepp on Jan 19, 2009 11:48:08 GMT
...most of it anyway.
I know there is already a "show me your fossils" thread, but I have a lot of pictures so I thought it would be best if I left them to their own thread
my collection consists of rocks and mineral specimens, crystals and various fossils that I have found, bought, or have received as gifts (naturally!). (there are some dinosaurs that snuck into these pictures as well!)
so here we go. BEWARE. VERY IMAGE HEAVY.
This is a hand-carved bowl brought back by my parents for me from Belize. Inside it are various rough Tibetan crystals:
A window-box featuring many different fossils, including Megalodon teeth, a Mosasaur tooth, shark tooth from an unknown species, a trilobite, dinosaur bone fragments, Ammonite shells, and a fossilized turtle shell fragment:
More window-boxes - top left, Spinosaurus teeth. Top right, Deltadromeus tooth, Camarasaurus tooth, and a Dromaeosaurus tooth. The bottom box is the rest of my fossilized shark teeth:
Nothing extraordinary in this one, an amethyst cluster and a polished dinosaur bone fragment:
A leaf and an unidentified fossil I found in eastern Oregon:
More leaves and a metasequoia... frond? that I found in eastern Oregon: (sorry for the blurry!)
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Opals in a jar, another metasequoia "frond" as well as some celestite. Also some dendrites I found in eastern Oregon:
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A dinosaur bone sphere, quartz sphere, and a glass sphere atop my PS2:
Assorted specimens on the right side of my computer desk:
Assorted specimens on the left side of my computer desk:
The top of my "Crystal Cabinet." Celestite, crystalline malachite, quartz, peacock ore, a Mosasaur tooth in matrix, and an unidentifiable fossilized mammal bone fragment I found outside the John Day fossil beds (legally!):
Top shelf of my Crystal Cabinet:
Bottom shelf of my Crysal Cabinet. The weird vaguely egg-shaped rock with "eyes" in the back left is actually a fossilized cast of one of the internal chambers of an Ammonite shell:
well that's most of it... and probably all I'll post unless someday I get something really exciting.
I know there is already a "show me your fossils" thread, but I have a lot of pictures so I thought it would be best if I left them to their own thread
my collection consists of rocks and mineral specimens, crystals and various fossils that I have found, bought, or have received as gifts (naturally!). (there are some dinosaurs that snuck into these pictures as well!)
so here we go. BEWARE. VERY IMAGE HEAVY.
This is a hand-carved bowl brought back by my parents for me from Belize. Inside it are various rough Tibetan crystals:
A window-box featuring many different fossils, including Megalodon teeth, a Mosasaur tooth, shark tooth from an unknown species, a trilobite, dinosaur bone fragments, Ammonite shells, and a fossilized turtle shell fragment:
More window-boxes - top left, Spinosaurus teeth. Top right, Deltadromeus tooth, Camarasaurus tooth, and a Dromaeosaurus tooth. The bottom box is the rest of my fossilized shark teeth:
Nothing extraordinary in this one, an amethyst cluster and a polished dinosaur bone fragment:
A leaf and an unidentified fossil I found in eastern Oregon:
More leaves and a metasequoia... frond? that I found in eastern Oregon: (sorry for the blurry!)
]
Opals in a jar, another metasequoia "frond" as well as some celestite. Also some dendrites I found in eastern Oregon:
]
A dinosaur bone sphere, quartz sphere, and a glass sphere atop my PS2:
Assorted specimens on the right side of my computer desk:
Assorted specimens on the left side of my computer desk:
The top of my "Crystal Cabinet." Celestite, crystalline malachite, quartz, peacock ore, a Mosasaur tooth in matrix, and an unidentifiable fossilized mammal bone fragment I found outside the John Day fossil beds (legally!):
Top shelf of my Crystal Cabinet:
Bottom shelf of my Crysal Cabinet. The weird vaguely egg-shaped rock with "eyes" in the back left is actually a fossilized cast of one of the internal chambers of an Ammonite shell:
well that's most of it... and probably all I'll post unless someday I get something really exciting.