Mini Me Geology Blog

Great news for home school groups, teachers, schools, and kids doing science projects!

Filed under: Minerals, Rocks on August 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Sedimentary rocks are formed when sand, small pieces of rock, or mud are deposited as layers of sediment.

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Question: What household items are made from metamorphic rocks?

Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Rocks on February 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Get all 6 Rock Detectives kits for the price of 5 when you buy the full set. Each kit comes complete with six or 7 cool rock or mineral samples, a hand magnifier and a CD with 30 pages of rock and mineral information, sample identification activities, puzzles, coloring pages, and experiments. Other fun activities on the CD include creating your own adventure story, making a personal geologist’s field notebook and your very own rock collection box!

Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on December 9th, 2009 | No Comments »

This unique mineral is often called TV Stone or TV Rock because of its fiber optic properties. Place a sample on a picture or text and watch the image transmit from beneath the mineral to the top. Ulexite is composed is white, silky fibers and is very soft.

Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on December 1st, 2009 | No Comments »

The first 100 people to make a purchase from our website, www.MiniMeGeology.com will receive a free citrine crystal when they put ‘EILEEN’ in the comments section of the shopping cart! This offer is valid today only.

Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on November 12th, 2009 | No Comments »

Teach your children about sedimentary rocks with this cool Sedimentary Sleuthing kit. Your kit comes complete with six cool sedimentary rock samples: lignite coal, sedimentary breccia, conglomerate, fossiliferous limestone, yellow sandstone and shale.

Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on November 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »

We are thrilled to announced that our entire line of Rock Detective kits are now available.  For the next few days on our blog we will feature each of the new kits to give you a little information about each one.  To check them all out click here.
First up, is our Crystal Experiment Kit.  Children [...]

Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on October 13th, 2009 | No Comments »

Ask-a-Geologist Q&A about Metamorphic Rocks. What rocks are changed by high pressure and high temperature?

Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Minerals, Rocks on September 21st, 2009 | No Comments »

Question: How could mineral hardness be used to tell quartzite (shown right) from marble (shown left)? Answer: I don’t know that hardness would be a good test since both of these rocks have undergone metamorphism.

Filed under: Geology / Earth Science, Rocks on July 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment »