CRYSTAL AND ROCK FORMATION

EARTH AND GEMS

Crystals, Minerals and a range of beautiful formations have been structuring themselves during every moment of existence.

Within the flowing layers of our Realm, Minerals and Crystal structures form under the generated conditions that allow the space for things to grow.

Crystals found are always composed of some number of oxygen, aluminium, silicon, iron, calcium, sodium, potassium or magnesium atoms set in a specific structure (called a Lattice)

These are elements found within all of the crystals you admire from afar, walk by daily and very likely the ones you already have with you (regardless if you have a collection already as the world around you is composed of crystalline strctures).

fig. 1 unit cell inside cubic lattice

The slow, steady, consistent hydrothermal movement and the generation of pressure, heating and cooling within the layers of the Earth provide the necessary environments and factors that lead to mineral crystallization. The duration of time known to create crystals varies, as many are now man-made in laboratories.

A crystal lattice is a formed unit cell that other atoms build upon, this structures a pattern that then becomes a solid object. A crystal type will always have the same or similar internal structure regardless of its shape, size and quality, or if it is broken or flawless. This is because spaces can appear between the molecules of the lattice allowing for an unsymmetrical pattern or a uniquely coloured specimen if variable atoms take place within the minerals structure.

This is also the basis of Geometry, the Mathematics to explain and align the facts about the Geometric World we live within. Since we can find in all aspects of Science and Nature these identifiable repeating patterns, we know and live by these shapes and energies regardless of our conscious effort to do so. The stillness around you is altered by the different inflections of the patterns and shapes that you (or others) bring into existence.