EditorialShort Beach, which is known for the nuggets of agate, jasper, quartz and petrified wood that lie beneath its smooth rocks, near Cape Meares, Ore., in October 2021. (Scott Robinson/The New York Times)
EditorialA geode from Uruguay lined with quartz and amethyst at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on April 30, 2021. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)