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Rockhounding = Hobby of collecting rocks and minerals from the natural environment // Hobby de coleccionar rocas y minerales del medio natural
Also called rock collecting, fossicking
Elsewhere on the Web
blackrockdesert.org
desertusa.com
wheretofindrocks.com
Recreational Geology – Minnesota DNR
Stray Notes
- In Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and Cornwall, activities of amateur geologists are called fossicking.
Videos
Al Trippel – The Geology of Cook County Minnesota: Oceans, Volcanoes, and Glaciers, Oh My!
48:45 To me, I love looking for these. It’s just another reason to go outside. And invariably if you get looking for rock, you can say “I’m going to look for pretty whatever atates or something and you don’t see them. And the next person along goes “Well here’s one. Here’s one. Here’s one.” Or you’re looking and all you see are frogs or all you see are gray rocks. Your head, your brain, your eyes, you tune in. Our whole being looks and sees different things the exact same place. And every hour is different or every day is different. And I like that. It’s to me very uh, needle in a haystack, but very relaxing to look for things.
51:00 And it’s also fun to if you ever get a chance to saw open a rock with a diamond embedded saw blade. You can saw open the rock and sometimes you look at a rock and you say “Well there’s nothing in it.” But it turns out that’s the outermost part of the onion skin layers and you cut it open and oh my it’s actually banded or it’s got a crystals in it or it looks totally different than you see it on the surface.
Wikipedia
Amateur geology
Planeta