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Geology videos from your professor, Dr. Abstract
What's My Rock? #10 — a rock identification show
What's My Rock? - Episode 10 - Special Zoom edition
Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews Lindsey about her rock in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Lindsey mailed her rock to the Doc and he analyzes it for her on Zoom. (Don't worry he sent it back to her.)
Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all!
The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who have independently contacted him for his geological expertise. In exchange for having their specimens analyzed and identified, they agree to be filmed for this UA-cam Channel. If you live in Southern California (or plan to be in the area) and you would like to appear on What's My Rock, send us a message with a picture of your rock. If you'd like to appear on Zoom, you'll have to mail us your rock, or a sample of your rock.
This is a Tectonic City production
Follow Tectonic City on Instagram: tectonic_city
Filmed on the campus of California State University, San Bernardino, courtesy of the Department of Geological Sciences www.csusb.edu/geology
Outro song, "Ain't No Meteorite" by Octopolis available on most streaming services: Spotify, Apple, Amazon, etc.
©2024 Codi Lazar
#geology #geologypage #geologists #rockhounding #rocksandminerals #rocks #minerals #earthscience #earth #gems #mineralogy
Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews Lindsey about her rock in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Lindsey mailed her rock to the Doc and he analyzes it for her on Zoom. (Don't worry he sent it back to her.)
Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all!
The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who have independently contacted him for his geological expertise. In exchange for having their specimens analyzed and identified, they agree to be filmed for this UA-cam Channel. If you live in Southern California (or plan to be in the area) and you would like to appear on What's My Rock, send us a message with a picture of your rock. If you'd like to appear on Zoom, you'll have to mail us your rock, or a sample of your rock.
This is a Tectonic City production
Follow Tectonic City on Instagram: tectonic_city
Filmed on the campus of California State University, San Bernardino, courtesy of the Department of Geological Sciences www.csusb.edu/geology
Outro song, "Ain't No Meteorite" by Octopolis available on most streaming services: Spotify, Apple, Amazon, etc.
©2024 Codi Lazar
#geology #geologypage #geologists #rockhounding #rocksandminerals #rocks #minerals #earthscience #earth #gems #mineralogy
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What's My Rock? #9 - a rock identification show
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What's My Rock? - Episode 9 Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews Austin about his rocks in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. In this episode we go deep...using x-ray powder diffraction to identify one of the stranger rocks we've seen. 0:00 Intro 2:10 Specimen #1 8:53 Specimen #2 11:47 Specimen #3 14:29 Wrap-up with Austin 19:20 X-ray powder diffraction: making the p...
Identify mineral cleavage like a pro: destruction, microscopes, and candy
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In this lesson, I explain how to identify cleavage in minerals using junk food as a model and by smashing up perfectly beautiful crystals. We'll look at the crystal shards in a regular binocular microscope and also at very high magnification using a scanning electron microscope. After these demonstrations, you should be able to identify mineral cleavage like a pro! Identifying cleavage is a fun...
How to play "Come See My Rock Collection" on guitar
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Streaming links for "Come See My Collection": UA-cam: ua-cam.com/video/EhTRbnUVorw/v-deo.html Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/20Mqksz7sPsaHSjDkSnCx9?si=19fbc64ff40647bc Other links: octopolis.org/listen.html Complete lyrics here: octopolis.org/lyrics/ComeSeeMyRockCollection.htm Follow me on Instagram: tectonic_city Music and lyrics Copyright 2023 C. Lazar
What's My Rock? #8 - a rock identification show
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What's My Rock? - Episode 8 Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews an enthusiastic Steve about his rock in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all! The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who h...
What's My Rock? #7 - a rock identification show
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What's My Rock? - Episode 7 Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews David and Fred about their rocks in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all! The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who have ...
What's My Rock? #6 - a rock identification show
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What's My Rock? - Episode 6 Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews Eric and Omar about their rock in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all! The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who have in...
A professor explains how to get into graduate school in the sciences with funding
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This is a talk I give to my own students here at CSUSB once a year, and this Zoom was filmed August 10, 2023 to ~70 students from around the world. I explain how to find a funded graduate program in the sciences so that you can get a degree without going into debt. I'm a geology professor, but this technique applies to any field of study in the sciences. In a nutshell: contact the right profess...
What's My Rock? #5 - a rock identification show
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What's My Rock? - Episode 5 Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews Marivel and Oscar about their rock in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all! The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who hav...
What's My Rock? #4 - a rock identification show
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What's My Rock? - Episode 4 Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews Colleen and Steve about their rocks in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all! The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who ha...
What's My Rock? #3 - a rock identification show
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What's My Rock? - Episode 3 Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews Cheri about her rocks in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all! The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who have independent...
What's My Rock? #2 - a rock identification show
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What's My Rock? - Episode 2 Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews Ricki about her rocks in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all! The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who have independent...
What's My Rock? #1 - a rock identification show
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What's My Rock? - Episode 1 Geology professor, Dr. Abstract, interviews Arnulfo about his rocks in this geology series on rock and mineral identification. Is it a meteorite or meteorwrong? Is it gold or just shiny? Is it a fossil, a diamond, a gemstone? Dr. Abstract calmly and cheerfully sorts through it all! The guests are not actors, but real people from Southern California who have independe...
After a year of studying geology, I FINALLY understand cleavage vs fracture. THANK YOU!
you're welcome :)
How do u get ahold of Dr.abstract
whatsmyrocks@yahoo.com
This is my favorite episode so far!! It was just loads of fun. Never imagined someone would bring you a maybe old bone or that petrified wood - but they are rocks I guess. What exciting unexpected thing would they bring in next???
People sure bring you the most unusual rocks!! I never would have thought silicon is a "rock"... That is a manmade rock.
I’m always learning something new with the things people bring me
I knew that last one was volcanic! 😊
Really glad you are putting out new content. I'd like to know how to get on the show. I rockhound San Diego beaches and have found some beautiful rocks that I can't identify. I've shown them to a couple of geologists from the San Diego Mineral & Gem Society, and they also don't know what they are. I could use some help. Thanks.
You’re welcome to come on the show and we’ll give it a go!
@tectonic_city Great! I sent you an email with some pictures. I look forward to your response.
IDK. Maybe screen people a little better? LOL. Very entertaining though!
All are welcome
Hmmmm.... Almost all of the rocks people bring in seem to have lots of calcium in them...
Must have spilled milk on the detector
I enjoyed this show! ❤
Why do you go to someone to ID your rock if you wont listen to him ??
Man, I love these videos. Going to binge watch them all now. Really really cool stuff. Thanks for making these!
Glad you like them!
"I have a lot of rocks, I promise you" very classy.
Not sure if this is a dig but i am a geologist and I like digging so either way its all good
text book duning-kruger. he knows just enough to think he knows it all. "google told me definitively that red means rhodium."
Passion makes the show entertaining
Really cool video:) love to see more analytic methods. Looking forwald to you making thinsections and using SED xD
Looks like magnatite ? Lets see. Edit I was close hematite was my number 2 guess. Im a gold miner find bolders of magnatite find chunky gold. Biggest magnatite, i found was about a basketball size and 100lbs so i left it 😢.
LOL I’d have left it too
@tectonic_city if I ever find my pice of josephinite a rare high nickle naturally occurring ore that of course people would think is a meteorite I will send it to you maybe I'm wrong.
Love this additional format💖Rock on!
I would be curious to see the same magnet dangle test with something strongly magnetic to see the difference!
That’s one heck of a kidney stone. 😂
Ouch!
A Rockhounders channel i can get down with =-) Ps My profile pic.... its a rock n its a mystery =-)
5:45 guess a mercury iron amalgam (mercury used to get used to extract gold from rivers) or slag again (hahaha my guesses are always wrong)
We didn’t do an XRF analysis so hard to say if anything was mixed with Fe
Yes!! New video!!🎉🎉
Yes!!! Definitely excited for a new episode! Thank you for producing these!
More to come!
The chipping faces on the first sample look a LOT like slickenside as well :)
I can see the resemblance but slickensides aren’t usually present on a quasicylindrical orientation like this one
At first glance I was betting on it being an aesbestos!
Big smh. Regurgitating
The silvery look and needle-like crystals make me think Stibnite, but that would be antimony. Calcium-aluminium-silicate, makes me think stilbite. Similar as they may sound. 😄
I think you meant stilbite, Good idea based on crystal habit but not nearly enough silicon for stilbite or any zeolite mineral
@@tectonic_city Oh ya, I said stibnite twice. I did mean stilbite. apologies. Editing. 😄
I love these videos, and the dad jokes
Great show! looking forward to the next one!
Nobody has heard of acicular?? People who have xonotlites have!! Get over yourself.
You’re welcome on the show anytime
you should have checked it for radiation.
good point, and I have a new Radiacode detector to use in the future
Awesome 🎉
I was worried when there wasn't any new videos lately. So glad your doing more
there'll be many more :) thanks
Gotta admit it was cool seeing some of the other machines and stuff that are part of the process. That and there is, i assume, some windows xp machine still running an old excel script containing the worlds library of things which come from the ground.
yes XP FTW, can't believe it still runs LOL
Lol, I like the song at the end.😆 Now I have to look through my collection for mystery rocks.
A new episode! And you stole my meteorite joke!
wait, which joke?
In the spirit of Crime Pays, Botany Doesn't: Acicular, nice.
Intrusive carbonatites. Nice.
he's hilarious
"we didn't sign a waiver for licking rocks" 😂😂😂
A new 'What's my Rock,' yay!
This was SO cool! LOVE your show & I learn SO much from it😊
Glad you had fun with it! Thanks for having me! Seemed to be quite the puzzle
Any time!
You have the patience of a saint.
Hello, where could I go in NorCal to identify a rock?
Try your nearest college geology department
I'm a new rock hound down in the Coachella valley, and would love to be a guest on your channel .
Send us an email at whatsmyrock@yahoo.com
Love your show!!
Rocky mountains Colorado here, new sub, love you guys, really just getting into it in earnest after flirting all these years, love this, love your channel/show, you guys rock!!! Of course😂😂❤❤
Our big professor is freaking out little man here with his "meteorites " 😂😂😂😂 poor dude, he just can't get over what he thinks he found😂😂
I bet it’s the bark texture of a root base that’s been cast in (edit: looks agatized or cherty). Their insides are usually solid no rings like the trunk
Iron slag was used as a road base many years ago. Magnetic rock found along a roadside is probably slag.
I wish I could master educating while simultaneously giving my body energy lol