Rocks and Minerals: How We Identify Them

Shows how common rocks and minerals can be identified by color, texture, hardness, streak and other standard procedures.

Minerals and Buttercups

A film about viewing, vision and preservation made around unceremoniously manipulated diary entries of John Ruskin. Transmission might occur.

Die Mineralwasser-Verschwörung

Mineralogist

8mm films are shot at 18 or 24 frames per second and projected at the same speed. Some 8mm projectors are capable of slow-motion projection. The slower the projection speed, the more intermittent the image becomes, makin

Evolution of Minerals

American Museum of Natural History short film

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place-a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid...