Sunday Stamps - Geology: Jersey

 I enjoyed studying geology at university, especially the field trips with a hammer in my hand. To find a rock like this would have made my day.

Jersey - 23 January 2007

This shows muscovite in a pegatite vein, felspar and mica.

Muscovite, aka common mica, isinglass or potash mica is a hydrated silicate of aluminium and potassium. Cleavage can give thin laminae sheets. Pegmatite is an igneous rock composed of quartz, felspar and mica.

For more geological samples check dig out the link at Treasures. where you may find an old fossil like me.

Sunday Stamps - Geology/Rock - Australia

As geology was one of my subsidiary subjects at University I'm a bit disappointed with what I could find this week. However two rocky spots in Australia came to the rescue in the end.

Australia - 25 August 1978

Australia - 23 August 2002

Broken Bay is a large inlet of the Tasman Sea located about 50 kilometres north of Sydney.

Gariwerd, the land is at the centre of creation stories for many of the Aboriginal communities in south-western Victoria. It is part of the Grampians National Park.

For more rocks and fossils, one of which I have on my desk, just visit the links at Seeitonapostcard.

Darwin Jigsaw - Sunday Stamps

I know I have shown one of these stamps before which were issued in 2009 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. However I decided to show it again with the First Class stamp from the same set.

Great Britain - Charles Darwin

The other jigsaw pieces in the set represented:

Great Britain - Darwin - Zoology

I do not have the others, but they were.

• 50p Ornithology (Finches)
• 56p Geology (Aerial view of Galapagos Islands)
• 72p Botany (Orchid)
• 81p Anthropology (Ape)

There were four more stamps of conventional (oblong) shape; two First Class showing a flightless cormorant, and a giant tortoise and a cactus finch; two at 81p of a marine iguana and a mocking bird

I'll keep and eye out for these with my market trader.

For other shapes and sizes check out those offered at Viridian's Sunday-stamps-125.