The picture of the month
April 2012
Heterogenite microcrystals (cobalt ore) formed inside a cavity of the rock (MEB picture) - Mindigi, Katanga (DRC)
February 2012
The Hoba Meteorite (a 50-ton Ni-rich ataxite of 3 m long and 1 m thick) is the largest known on Earth. It has impacted Namibia 80,000 years ago but no impact crater has been found.
November 2011
Late Bronze Age archaeological site Hala Sultan Tekke, with view on the Larnaca saltlake (Cyprus, May 2011)
September 2011
UNILU Geology student Kasongo Wamutombo, during a field gamma-ray spectroscopy survey of the Lubudi limestone quarry, Katanga (DRC)
July 2011
The karstic site of Fondry-des-Chiens comprising reefal stromatoporoidal limestones (base of the Givetian, Middle Devonian) is located in the Calestienne (Nismes, Belgium)
June 2011
Several fairy chimneys with caps are formed on glacial sediments (Le Sauze du Lac, Hautes-Alpes, France)
April 2011
Tower karts landscape on triassic limestones, surrounding Xa Phin royal residence of Hmong people, Vietnam
