I’m feeling weirdly hurt by the viral tweet mocking geoscientists for licking rocks. I get that we’re a bit weird even for scientists and get a bit more blunt with our toolset, but licking rocks is a real strategy. Taste & texture are diagnostic.pic.twitter.com/9XvrfU32JQ
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Evaporites are soft (scratch with your fingernail), but the easiest way to ID between halite vs sylvite is salty vs sour. IDing sand vs clay is the cutoff between gritty or not. Fossils stick to your tongue. You don’t NEED to lick rocks; it’s just faster & easier.
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Beryllium tastes like dying!
1:28 PM - 16 Aug 2018
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