I LOVE unexpected finds! I went out searching for 40 million year old fossil sea urchins and sand dollars, and I ended up ...

I never thought I'd stoop so low as to cook crystals in the oven... HAHA! Just kidding, this is just a way to get these calcite crystals looking GOOD! These are the calcite crystals I found in my most ...

Since crystal orientation within rock fabric may be used to infer geologic settings, we present here a complementary Raman method to study the orientation of calcite (CaCO3) and dolomite [CaMg (CO3)(2 ...