...facilitated by biological activity...
Interesting. I once had a geology class whose instructor had discovered a new mineral. He did a study in Antarctica and found a compound that had not previously been observed as a solid.
“that the exact mineral diversity of our planet is unique and could not be duplicated anywhere in the cosmos.”
That is about as broad a statement as it is possible to make.
When I was remodeling my house I went to numerous granite warehouses and viewed some of the most beautiful crystalized formations. A lot of them were high dollar stuff but this one quartz sheet featured colors I did not know existed in nature, as colorful as an exotic parrot’s plume, with those colors of blue and green you only see in South Sea Island photography when someone has juiced up the color filters. On the day I saw that, I left the warehouse looking for a tissue, because God made it.
>>New research from a team led by Carnegie’s Robert Hazen predicts that Earth has more than 1,500 undiscovered minerals and that the exact mineral diversity of our planet is unique and could not be duplicated anywhere in the cosmos.
Almost like it was planned to be this way?
“Robert Hazen predicts that Earth has more than 1,500 undiscovered minerals”
Stop and think about just how stupid this statement is.
Answer: These are UNDISCOVERED minerals. If they are undiscovered how would they possibly know many are undiscovered? Was it in a dream he had? Maybe it was something he ate.
Who knows? They are undiscovered and we won’t know until they are discovered. That poses a problem with his credibility for there is no proof of the “UNDISCOVERED” minerals so how can he prove himself right?
It’s kinda like climate change isn’t it. No proof but positive statements from the “scientific” community.
No wonder you can’t believe a damn thing they say until it is actually proven and certified by the scientific community.
“could not be duplicated anywhere in the cosmos.”
I don’t think that any of this is conclusive. Could be
accurate to the point of what we know here on earth and
possibly what we know about our own solar system.
But the cosmos? I doubt it.
Another very interesting work on geology is Simon Winchester’s “The Map That Changed the World.”
It’s about the first geological map of Britain (circa 1820).
I had known that geology was a national craze in England in the late 18th-early 19th centuries, but I didn’t know why until I read this book.
The answer — coal. It was the oil of the day. As industrialization multiplied the need for coal, English landowners wanted to find coal deposits on their properties to exploit.
So you need to know what kind of surface geology indicates coal deposits.
Also, as more and more coal mines were dug, it was noticed that the underground layers occurred in regular patterns, and contained similar fossils in similar layers, that also showed a pattern.
Good book.