I played with some rocks today

Shane · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 6:40 pm

The rocks were rather interesting. I had to check for various things such as the type, lustre, colour, hardness, streak colour, cleavage, etc... If it was an igneous rock you had to determine under what conditions it was formed. Fun stuff sorta... except I had a bit of a head cold.

Ah well, anyone do mineral identification before?

Adbot · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 6:40 pm

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 6:43 pm

Omg, yes. I did that in Geology with the porcelain scratch plates. It got to be annoying when it came to rocks that had no streak (ie most felsic rocks). Mineral identification is kind of fun though, except when you have to sift through the various colours one stone of quartz can be.

Ranging God · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 6:48 pm

Yup, 4th grade =-D

lol, it;s what I did ont he play grounds =-D

Mikhail · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 7:35 pm

Yes I did that 10th grade it's mind boggling.

Kyle · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 8:00 pm

I never knew rocks had cleavage? But no ive never did any rock idnifacation besides trying to find creek crystals

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 8:27 pm

Kyle wrote:

I never knew rocks had cleavage? But no ive never did any rock idnifacation besides trying to find creek crystals

Cleavage (according to the field of Geology):

Adbot · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 8:27 pm

Kayto239 · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 8:42 pm

Lol I remember doing that for science in like 7th grade and coping my teachers rock.

§

Marking22 · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 8:54 pm

if we had to examine rocks in class i would probably through the rocks at the teacher
so no i have never examined rocks before

jointntoday · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 9:53 pm

never really done anything like that, but when ever i go places i always come home with a rock or 2, i've always liked em. i have rocks from alaska to hawaii to ohio to florida
you get the point. when i went to my great-grandma's a few years ago she gave me a box full of rocks from almost every state, a block of salt from the salt lakes and everything

yeah, i had a hell of a time getting that back on the plane home

what the hell was i going to do? salt someone to death??
"ohhh i salt your eyes so bad they water!!" :lol:

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 10:26 pm

I used to smash ants with rocks.

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** September 30th, 2008, 10:28 pm

CreepyPirate wrote:

I used to smash ants with rocks.

Really? I used magnifying glasses. Muahahahaha...ahahaha.

Mineral testing isn't all that fun. You do come across some really pretty rocks, like Labradorite.

Giveyoupain · **Posted:** October 1st, 2008, 2:42 am

This looks like an interesting study i cant wait till we do something like this in science next year. Playing with rocks are fun. I like donning rocks as my pets.

Alex · **Posted:** October 1st, 2008, 9:04 am

I throw a bunch of rocks and stones against more rocks and stones to form sparks.

Hells Sponge · **Posted:** October 6th, 2008, 4:49 pm

I love it how when applied to rocks, cleaveage is bad. Weird, huh?

jointntoday · **Posted:** October 6th, 2008, 6:07 pm

Hells Sponge wrote:

I love it how when applied to rocks, cleaveage is bad. Weird, huh?

no, cleaveage is never bad