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The scientific study of the origin, history, and physical features of the earth.

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cerussite

Geology; Minerals

Cerussite (also known as lead carbonate or white lead ore) is a mineral consisting of lead carbonate (PbCO 3 ), and an important ore of lead. The name is from the Latin cerussa, ...

hapkeite

Geology; Minerals

Hapkeite is a mineral discovered in the Dhofar 280 meteorite found in 2000 in Oman on the Arabian peninsula. The meteorite is believed to originate from the Moon; specifically, it ...

magnesioferrite

Geology; Minerals

Magnesioferrite is a magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels. Magnesioferrite crystallizes as black metallic octahedral crystals. It is named ...

pararealgar

Geology; Minerals

Pararealgar is an arsenic sulfide mineral with the chemical formula As 4 S 4 also represented as AsS. It forms gradually from realgar under exposure to light. Its name derives ...

tienshanite

Geology; Minerals

Tienshanite, named for the Tian Shan Range in Mongolia, is a rare borosilicate mineral, though rock-forming in some parts of its original locality at the Dara-i-Pioz Glacier in ...

cesanite

Geology; Minerals

Cesanite is the end member of the apatite-wilkeite-ellestadite series that substitutes all of apatite's phosphate ions with sulfate ions and balances the difference in charge by ...

lithiophilite

Geology; Minerals

Lithiophilite is a mineral containing the element lithium. It is lithium manganese(II) phosphate with formula: LiMnPO 4 . It occurs in pegmatites often associated with triphylite, ...