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Articles: Mineral identification at Amgueddfa Cymru
7 December 2009[image: Quartz crystal]
One of the activities of the Geology Department at Amgueddfa Cymru is to document all the minerals known in Wales. Minerals can be identified visually, but for a more definitive confirmation a process known as X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) is used.
Articles: Moon Rock from the Apollo moon landing
1 September 2009[image: moon rock article image]
In December 1969, museum visitors queued round the block to see a sample of rock brought back from the Moon by Apollo 11. This is the story of what they came to see.
Articles: Tropical trilobites from frozen Greenland
5 August 2009[image: Trilobite eye]
The Museum's extensive holding of fossils include a collection of Ordovician age (470-490 million years old) trilobite fossils from Greenland. Although the continent is now cold and icy, it was not always so.
Galleries: Crystals and Minerals
23 July 2009Galleries: Meteorite Gallery
25 October 2008
Articles
Articles: Mineral identification at Amgueddfa Cymru
7 December 2009[image: Quartz crystal]
One of the activities of the Geology Department at Amgueddfa Cymru is to document all the minerals known in Wales. Minerals can be identified visually, but for a more definitive confirmation a process known as X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) is used.
Articles: Moon Rock from the Apollo moon landing
1 September 2009[image: moon rock article image]
In December 1969, museum visitors queued round the block to see a sample of rock brought back from the Moon by Apollo 11. This is the story of what they came to see.
Articles: Tropical trilobites from frozen Greenland
5 August 2009[image: Trilobite eye]
The Museum's extensive holding of fossils include a collection of Ordovician age (470-490 million years old) trilobite fossils from Greenland. Although the continent is now cold and icy, it was not always so.
Articles: Museum records largest earthquake in UK for 25 years
28 February 2008
Galleries
Galleries: Crystals and Minerals
23 July 2009[image: Gemmy red proustite crystal]
A gallery of Welsh crystals
Enjoy the incredible colours, forms and lustre of these magnificent museum specimens.
Galleries: Meteorite Gallery
25 October 2008[image: Meteorite]
View this gallery of extraterrestrial objects that have fallen to earth from outer space.