There’s more to rock collecting than meets the eye, and mind you, it’s not just about that piece of rock that you kick away on the street or the one that you see lying around your garden.

Rocks and stones have stories of their own and there are discoveries beyond what you could imagine with a single piece of rock in your collection.
As you can see, the earth is totally made up of rock, from the tallest elevation to the very bottom of the sea, rocks form the base of the earth’s structure.

There are millions of different types of rocks and minerals that can be found all over the world and most rocks that are found on the earth’s surface is either made up of a combination of elements that solidify and harden over time to form a rock.

There are only eight common elements that are either a series of combinations or less of eight elements and these are silicon, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, aluminum, calcium and oxygen.

Either one or more of the other of these elements, are combined in different ways that will make each rock variety different and distinct from the other.
Rocks continually change, especially with the two most common natural forces of wind and water that wear them down, breaking it into smaller bits and these tiny particles accumulate in a common area and through time, clump together and harden to form another piece of rock or stone.

This is where the challenge of rock collecting comes in, it is by documenting and keeping samples of rocks would allow us to study how rocks form and change, it shows us a picture or history of how rocks evolve and change.
It is highly possible that a rock collected today may have the same make up and composition as the other, and this is where you find the challenge in rock collecting and as you may not know it yet, you may be the last to have a rock specimen of a particular nature or composition.

There are millions of rocks that can be found anywhere around the world and each rock or stone tells a story of its origins, how it used to be in contact with other elements or what unique trait a particular area would have since it also comprises many of the elements that are also commonly found in that area.

Collecting and studying rocks, either as a hobby or a science, poses many challenges and experiences, se better consider rock collecting- there’s more to it than meets the eye.

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