Hi all, Recently someone posted a link to what is basically iNat for rock hounds or geologists. I can’t seem to find the post - can someone point me there? It’s a secondary interest of mine and in a couple of weeks I’ll be in prime geology territory (Anza Borrego desert - it’s kinda in your face …

They might have been talking about RockD. I downloaded it awhile ago but didn’t get the point of it, although I also wasn’t very interested in geology to begin with.

Tony Iwane shared about RockD (like @zookanthos said) here: https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/22612-holy-mola-the-oral-history-of-an-inat-identification Is this what you might be thinking of, @KitKestrel ?

I looked at the RockD website for a little bit after that post, and I also couldn’t figure it out. I found a map with all the different formations overlaid over Google Maps, which was neat, but that doesn’t seem quite like iNaturalist. I couldn’t find a help page and I didn’t download the app so I p…

@mira_l_b yes, that’s the reference I remember, but like @upupa-epops I don’t get the website. I think it may just be an app - will check it out tomorrow. Thanks :-)

RockD appears to be an app. From what I see, it’s not really for amateur rockhounds. It’s probably not worth it unless you a have a little experience or coursework in recognizing rock types, geologic mapping, or are a bona fide geologist. From my own experience, I don’t readily see how an iNat fo…

Most geology resources tend to be more textual and maps than anything else. There’s a ton of data (and various types of data) but not a lot of attempt to be user-friendly, especially toward rock hounds. I know certain departments like mine regrettably have zero interest in that. There’s USGS data, t…

this may be too oblique but for those who want to nerd out on both geology and ecology… many plant species have affinities to different geologic formations… it could be really fun for an ecology nerd to observe various plants and use a field to fill out the geologic formation for each (that also let…

Thank you all for your informative and considered posts. Fossils are good! As is the botany/geology intersect. I’m going with my mum, whose father was a mine geologist/prospector for much of the early to mid 1900s in the Kenya/Zimbabwe/Tanzania region, and one method of prospecting is of course to l…

iNat for Geology?

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I recently posted a link to myFOSSIL, which is like iNat for fossils. Could you have been referring to that?

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