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Patterns Imagined on Mars - Edward Barnard 1894

Patterns Imagined on Mars - Giovanni Schiaperelli c.1880s

the invasive ‘porcelain berry vine’ reminds me of a mix of grapes and red potatoes- ampelopsis brevipedunculata

soft sediment deformation

magnified sands

Pele’s Seaweed - coiled sheets of volcanic glass formed underwater as thin bubbles in lava that break with the currents & tide

a not quite fluid ferrofluid

(Source: larameeee)

Pele’s Hair - volcanic glass whipped into strands by the wind: like prairie grass or locks of hair

sliding down the scale of the universe, or up

Homo Sapiens - Least Concern

Homo Sapiens - Least Concern

dark chalcedony geodes with botryoidal jasper

pattern & cortical lamination

fossilized whale brains

Stalagmite Stratigraphy

horse teeth & something similar