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I’m out of town for the next 3 days on a backpacking trip, so I will leave you with this photo from Badlands National Park in South Dakota.

Image Credit: Johnny Blood on flickr.

Flickr user Nix Sidhe has a great set of photos she recently took from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[30 July 2008 - Image removed at the request of photographer]

Unfortunately, I don’t know the name of the beautiful mineral she has pictured. Any ideas?

Today’s geology picture of the day is from Petrified Forest National Park and shows a nice example badlands topography.

Image Credit: lithorne on flickr

A beautiful picture of pahoehoe from Hawaii.

Image Credit: cocoi_m on flickr.

Today’s geology picture of the day is from the Valley of the Gods, located in Southern Utah (one of my favorite places for geology).

Image credit: Allan1952 on Flickr.