workman:

Heart-Shaped Glomerocryst Photomicrograph

While studying samples of lavas from the Aeolian Islands off the west coast of Italy, I came across an interesting aggregate of crystals (glomerocryst).

A photomicrograph thin section of the aggregate is featured above. Aeolian lava is studied to understand how magma forms at depth and the level of risk of its eruption. This particular glomerocryst is made of two minerals; plagioclase and pyroxene, whose chemical compositions, textures and melt inclusions help decipher just what happens in a magma chamber.

But, if you look closely at its shape, you might learn something more — that even something as hard as a rock has a heart. — Bernardo Cesare

(Source: scinerds)

mythologyofblue:

Felix Vallotton, Clair de Lune, 1895

mythologyofblue:

Henry Prellwitz,  Moonlight Ring, ca. 1910s-1920s +

turnofthecentury:

Ruth St Denis, 1916, by Edward Weston

partizany:

Masaki Nakayama

3wings:

Lee Miller

7while23:

Leif Podhajsky, Synchronicity Series, 2011

vurtual:

Triple staircase (by Ángel Sánchez García)

The triple helicoidal staircase was designed and built on XVII century by Domingo de Andrade. This construction it’s a great architectonical solution to access to three different levels of the building.

Located on Santo Domingo of Bonaval’s Convent.

red-lipstick:

Cheron Tomkins - Homage to Rosalind Franklin, 2011

Paintings: Acrylics on Canvas

http://www.curatenyc.org/index.php/painting/item/1759-cheron-tomkins-homage-to-rosalind-franklin

takahikohayashi:

D-12.July.2007
painting on paper
林孝彦　HAYASHI Takahiko 2007 

drawpaintprint:

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849): Feminine Wave, Masculine Wave

iloverainandcoffee:

chunks of ice against black basalt on the coast of iceland

adrian metzelaar on flickr

(Source: arrandeterra)

n-a-s-a:

Colors of Mercury

Image Credit: NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington

workman:

wowgreat:

Kate MccGwire

shoorai:

usemeth:

Arranged Diatom Exhibition Slides from the Victorian Era c.1830s-1900

_{“Diatoms are one of the largest and most ecologically significant group of organisms on the planet. They occur almost anywhere that is adequately lit and wet and use photosynthesis to live. They are easily recognized by their unique cellular structures, silicified cell walls, and life cycles.”}

You can read more about diatoms at the Tree of Life Project

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