Beauty in Rocks and Minerals Photo Gallery by Doug Sherman at pbase.com

Beauty in Rocks and Minerals

I am a geologist and have worked with rocks all of my adult life. I was always attracted to rocks and minerals, even as a child, and over the years have discovered some outstanding examples of the exceptional beauty nature provides in the form of rocks and minerals. This gallery is dedicated to some of those examples on both the macroscopic and microscopic scale.

Iron stained Navajo Sandstone near Knab UT	Beach pebbles, Lake McDonald Glacier National Park UT	Photomicrograph of peridotite in thin section X10	Iron oxide stain in Navajo Sandstone, Coyote Buttes, AZ
Photomicrograph of biotite schist in thin section X10	Iron stained Navajo Sandstone near Kanab, UT	Banded iron formation with tiger-eye, Mount Brockman, Australia	Banded iron formation Ispheming MI
Blue quartz rhyolite porphyry, Llano TX	Agate, Brazil	Petrified wood, Chinle Wash, AZ	Rhodochrosite stalactite cross-section, Catamarca, Argentina
Polished slab of petrified wood, Holbrook, AZ	Agate, Brazil	Amethyst-agate geode, Brazil	Pyrite suns, Sparta, IL
Irridescent specular hematite, Minas Gerais, Brazil	Bornite (peacock ore), Butte MT	Thunderegg from the Priday layer, Richardson Ranch, OR	Petrified wood, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ
Petrified Wood, Petrified Forest National Park, AZ