🪨 ROCKS & MINERALS

Rocks & Minerals

Understanding rocks and minerals is essential to understanding fossils, landscapes, and earth processes.

This section focuses on practical rock and mineral identification, basic geology, and how earth materials relate to fossil formation and preservation.

Focus Areas

• Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks
• Common mineral identification techniques
• Geological formations associated with fossil beds
• Field collecting basics and safety

Material is presented from a field-observer perspective, emphasizing what can actually be seen and identified outdoors