Monthly Archives: August 2024

Miners have found irregularly shaped olivine nodules (round rocks containing olivine crystals) in some lava flows in the United States,China and Vietnam. Very rarely, large crystals can be found in the veins and caverns of certain types of solidified lava. Geologists believe these two types of deposits are related to seafloor spreading. When the earth’s […]

Olivine, spinel and brown and red striped agate are the three August birthday stones. Olivine birthstones are known to form under extreme conditions and can be found in hardened lava. These magmas carry olivine from deep in the mantle, and olivine can also be found in meteorites from outer space. /*! elementor – v3.21.0 – […]