WESTMINSTER COLORADO-2015: A Close-Up Rotating Specimen of Murky Quartz Pitted
About this clip
A close-up shot of a rotating quartz specimen with a murky, pitted surface, in Westminster, Colorado, in 2015. The specimen displays natural mineral deposits and a weathered texture, presented as part of a personal geology collection. This amateur home movie footage offers a tactile, abstract view of nature’s formations, ideal for educational or artistic projects exploring geology, minerals, or vintage film aesthetics. The slow rotation highlights the specimen’s unique surface details under soft lighting, evoking a sense of quiet discovery and natural beauty.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Use in geology education, mineral collection inserts, documentary texture, museum-style explainers, or abstract nature visuals needing a murky white quartz specimen from Westminster, Colorado.
- Edit role
- Use this six-second close-up as an insert, texture beat, or transition when a timeline needs tactile mineral detail without people, crowds, or broad landscape context.
- Visual details
- A translucent white quartz piece fills the frame on a black textured surface, with cloudy internal fractures, small pits, mineral specks, soft highlights, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 41 MB
- Location
- Westminster, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2015
- Published
- Jan 2015
Still Frames From This Clip
3 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.
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