Comment on Rock Identification

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …tasting? 🤔

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  • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rocks have distinct textures on the tongue that helps differentiate them. It’s not really tasting

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    h-hey you’re a geologist right? can you uh, identify this… rock? for me?

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  • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Believe it or not, this is a legit thing. I haven’t done anything much with rocks*, but here’s a good example for soil. If it’s fine grained (smaller than sand) and you can’t see the particles by eye, you can rub some on your teeth:

    Buttery texture --> clay Gritty on the teeth --> silt

    Not approved for use on contaminated ground!

    • I’m a structural engineer, but I work closely with geotechnical engineers and do my best to understand it as well

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• negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bet you warn about Land Wars in Asia, don’t you?

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I spent the last two years building up an immunity to garnets in a mica schist.

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