Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

[piimasta314]

By the way, I'm new to this forum. How do you use the "hide" thing? As you can see I used the tags [hide][/hide] but it's not hiding and I don't know why...

[vulcanologist1234]

it is like this
[hide]things you want to show|things you want to hide[hide]
You need to type in the vertical line

[darkdeserthighway]

The only thing I can think of is (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Watermelon Tourmaline

correct!

[darkdeserthighway]

[hide]I think it looks like tourmaline...almost watermelon, except the pink/red part hasn't formed completely yet. Or maybe it already did but broke off somehow. BTW, is the first one that PacificGoldenPlover had mahogany obsidian? I saw the answer as just obsidian which kinda makes sense. I still can't tell the difference between that and jasper...[/hide]

You're correct, but pacificgoldenplover was faster.
and...It probably is mahogany obsidian...

[PacificGoldenPlover]

it is like this

things you want to show (Click to Show Hidden Text)

things you want to hide[hide]
You need to type in the vertical line[/quote]
Technically, for the last hide, it needs to be

Technically, for the last hide, it needs to be[/hide].

Anyways... (Click to Show Hidden Text)

[img]http://mindatnh.org/gallery%20photos/Talc3.jpg[/img]

[vulcanologist1234]

is it (Click to Show Hidden Text)

talc

[piimasta314]

Is it (Click to Show Hidden Text)

talc? The picture was so fuzzy I almost thought it was pumice at first...

[PacificGoldenPlover]

is it (Click to Show Hidden Text)

talc

Correct

[vulcanologist1234]

here it is (Click to Show Hidden Text)

[img]http://www.ncwcom.com/~jones/Geology/pictures/rhyolite.jpg[/img]

[PacificGoldenPlover]

Answer (Click to Show Hidden Text)

Rhyolite