‘Is it worth anything?’ ‘I dunno, is the answer to that question worth another $5?’
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At the small college I attended, Geology 101 was known as “Rocks for Jocks” because it was the class jocks took to satisfy their science requirement. In one hallway was a big display board with a bunch of labeled rock samples on it. If you memorized all of them well enough to identify them on the final, you were almost guaranteed to pass. So there were always football jocks standing there studying that board.
Yeah! Science!
I usually just say something like “look over there!” and sneakily replace the rock they were tasting to the one I want identified
I bet you warn about Land Wars in Asia, don’t you?
I’ve spent the last two years building up an immunity to garnets in a mica schist.
Scientists are people, too. Give them the McDonald’s money and they’ll do all sorts of cool things for you.
They did not lick it. I don’t trust that expertise
I wish I had some geologist friends.
Speaking of this, my wife has a dark gray rock about the size of a silver dollar she found many years ago in our front yard, within a mile of the shore of Puget Sound. It’s broken, with a reflective crystalline-looking structure inside, and a magnet attracts it. Anybody know how likely it is to be meteoric iron?
Edit: I was wrong, see below! Shouldn’t have assumed simulating active galactic nuclei would make me knowledgeable about asteroids.
Astrophysicist, not a geologist here. Maybe if you sent a pic I might recognize it. But it’s kind of unlikely, since afaik crystals from under great pressures, which meteorites don’t tend to undergo like that.
Not only under pressure but under very slow cooling as what happens in the centers of asteroids
The rhomboid crystal structure of meteor iron was set long before that particular rock entered our atmosphere and is visible in many, MANY museum pieces.
Jesus Christ, Marie. It’s a mineral!
I worked in the mining industry for awhile, and we’d just ask the geo to lick the rock to identify it.
