This is such an important story for all Americans to read. Thank you to Kori Suzuki for writing it so sensitively and to Berkeleyside for publishing it today.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2025/04/23/james-wakasa-monument-topaz-relocation-center-japanese-american-incarceration
In #SanFrancisco, the annual observance will take place Sunday 2/16 at the Kabuki.
The ceremony and blessings, Carrying the Light for Justice, will also honor Dr. Satsuki Ina, and be followed by a short candlelight procession through Japantown.
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#Topaz
#Mexico
stands about 15mm tall
Photo by Steve Young
By #GeologicalWondersToo / Karen Kemp
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It’s mid-November but there was a young #swallow flying laps of the reserve at #WWTCastleEspie this morning.
Shot on Canon EOS70D with Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary lens, processed in #Topaz #SharpenAI and #affinityphoto.
#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #bird #birds #migration #autumn #CountyDown #NorthernIreland @RSPB
#MinCup24 R3M4: #Kyanite versus #Topaz
Blue blades of Kyanite are a classic mineral found in rock shops, introductory geology classrooms, eroded mountains, and geological research laboratories. Topaz is a jeweler’s dream mineral, blending toughness with beauty, and has exceptional clarity, brilliance, and versatility.
VOTE: https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r3m4
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Topaz Gemstone - November Birthstone.
Art Prints & more: https://matthias-hauser.pixels.com/featured/topaz-gemstone-november-birthstone-matthias-hauser.html
#MinCup24 topaz vs charoite
Got to be topaz! A beautiful ancient name, now applied to a beautiful and fascinating mineral and gemstone. Here's a gorgeous waterworn blue topaz crystal from the Cairngorms, with a perfectly smooth cleavage plane providing a window into the flawless clear interior (on display in the NHM, London) . 
#Geology #Mineralogy #Cairngorm #Topaz #NHM @MineralCup
#MinCup24 R2M8: #Charoite versus #Topaz
Chaorite is an intensely purple mineral with a fibrous, swirly pattern that’s been compared to Van Gogh’s Starry Night. It forms from contact metamorphism in Siberia.
Topaz is a hard, many-hued gemstone that crystallizes along the fractures in igneous rock, and is mined all over the world. It is pleochroic; i.e. it can appear different colors from different angles.
Time to choose your mineral!
VOTE: https://www.mineralcup.org/2024/vote/r2m8
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It was a very close match but congratulations to #Topaz and commiserations to #Spodumene.
#MinCup24 #Topaz I was lucky enough to hold this chonky Scottish topaz a few years ago - a old-time specimen from the Cairngorms 
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#MinCup24 topaz Vs spodumene
I voted #topaz! Spodumene might be a harbinger of weirder, more wonderful rocks, but there's something about the crisp, bright, clean, clarity of topaz that I love more
Here's a wee topaz from "Skottland" (probably the Cairngorms) in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm which I saw in 2016. It's from the collection of the legendary chemist & mineralogist Berzelius (1779-1848) #Geology #Chemistry #Mineralogy @MineralCup
At high pressures, fluorine-free topaz is stable: Topaz-OH. It's likely present only on recent Earth in our solar system: water, aluminous sediments (shales; pelites) from continental crust and cold subduction zones are all required.
Given these, Topaz-OH can potentially transport water into the mantle transition zone (where it's stored in #ringwoodite ) Figure from Huang et al (2020).
#MinCup24 R1 M16: #Topaz versus #Spodumene
In a battle of the biggest stones, these minerals are ready to rumble.
Topaz forms some of the largest gemstone crystals in the world, famous specimens weighing more than a teenager. The largest crystal of Spodumene ever found is the size of a Right Whale.
Which one will you choose?
Aesthetic specimen Natural Imperial #Topaz standing in Matrix from# Katlang Mardan #Pakistan.
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By #GeologyWonders
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