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Announcing: 🎉 Rock Hounding Resources!
Hi Everyone, Check out our newest category, Rock Hounding Resources! This is a place to share anything you use to help rockhound, learn, or share info about rocks! Examples of things you can share: - YouTube channels like Elley Knows Rocks - Geology websites like geology.in - Reddit forums like r/whatisthisrock - Your own personal website! - Your favorite or your own crystal shop website! Thanks to one of our new members @Scott Drynan mentioning his use of YouTube to find cool rockhounding spots in his area, I realized we didnt have a place to share resources like this in the community. I encourage everyone to jump in and start sharing. Thats what this community is all about!
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Show your Rock
As an adult this was the first piece I actually dug up and found, instead of just a happenstance walk by. My dad lives in Kansas in a 1920 farm house. Out by the old water pump was the top of a crystal just poking through the dirt. Curious, I dug until I pulled out a huge slab. It split naturally and it was perfect for my sister and I to share.
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Introduce Yourself
Hello fellow Rockheads 🪨🙂, If you love rocks in any capacity, this is your new community. We’re here to share anything and everything rocks, because rocks are awesome. Write a brief intro about yourself and how long you’ve had an interest, your collection, and anything else you want people to know. ROCKS ROCK! Here’s a template to help you get started: Hi my name is ____ and I love rocks. Ive been looking at/collecting for ____. I have (number of rocks in your possession at the moment). My favorite thing(s) about rocks is ____. I’ll start: Hi my name is Paul and I love rocks. I’ve been picking up and looking at them for as long as I can remember. I probably have thousands (I’ve never done a full count) between my childhood home and my current apartment in Brooklyn, NY. My favorite thing about rocks is no matter how mundane, each and every one has a fascinating story of churning through millions upon millions of years of earth movement and depositing. You pick up a rock and you’re often holding something that was around at the time of the dinosaurs. Also they are stunningly beautiful and endlessly unique. No two are exactly the same and I absolutely love that.
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Rocks Rocks Rocks, Rocks!
My name is Quentin. In Colorado. Always have had pockets full of Rocks when I get home 😅
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Rocks vs Stones
Believe it or not there is a subtle, yet important difference between the terms ‘Rock’ and ‘Stone’. Though using them interchangeably is not some big faux pas, it is interesting to note they are definitionally different. ROCK - a rock is usual replete with its natural jagged edges and mass. Rocks vary in size dramatically - from the palm of your hand to mountain sized boulders. A single continuous mass of minerals and mineraloids make up rocks. A rock is typically what we find on a hiking trail. STONE - a stone is defined differently mostly by its shape, smoothness, and size. A stone is typically weathered by nature or human intervention till the surface has lost all protruding features. Stones can be large, but typically aren’t recognized as such when they are larger than human scale. A stone is typically what we find on the shore of a lake. Stones are used in the context of construction or decoration. From geology.in : “The key thing to note is that geologists use "rock" as a broader term to describe large masses of material that make up the Earth's crust, including mountains, plateaus, and cliffs.” Pretty cool right?
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