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Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 24th, 2013, 9:34 pm
by 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...

Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 25th, 2013, 2:01 pm
by 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

Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 25th, 2013, 2:51 pm
by darkdeserthighway
PacificGoldenPlover wrote:
Watermelon Tourmaline
correct!

Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 25th, 2013, 2:52 pm
by darkdeserthighway
piimasta314 wrote:[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...

Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 25th, 2013, 5:03 pm
by PacificGoldenPlover
vulcanologist1234 wrote:it is like this
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].
[img]http://mindatnh.org/gallery%20photos/Talc3.jpg[/img]

Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 25th, 2013, 8:20 pm
by vulcanologist1234
talc

Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 26th, 2013, 1:13 pm
by piimasta314
talc? The picture was so fuzzy I almost thought it was pumice at first...

Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 26th, 2013, 8:09 pm
by PacificGoldenPlover
vulcanologist1234 wrote:
talc
Correct

Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 27th, 2013, 1:42 pm
by vulcanologist1234
[img]http://www.ncwcom.com/~jones/Geology/pictures/rhyolite.jpg[/img]

Re: Rocks and Minerals Question Marathon

Posted: March 27th, 2013, 3:18 pm
by PacificGoldenPlover
Rhyolite