# Rocks & Minerals

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rocks-minerals/8981>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [December 29, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rocks-minerals/8981 "2019-12-29T20:57:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kblackfoto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kblackfoto/32/6429_2.png) [@Kblackfoto](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Kblackfoto)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rocks-minerals/8981/1 "2019-12-29T20:57:09Z")

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I have been collecting rocks since I arrived and it’s very hard to identify what some might be. I was curious if there is a sub section of iNaturalist that is used to identify the geology side of things. If not can where do we make a request?

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**Author:** ![carrieseltzer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/carrieseltzer/32/38544_2.png) [@carrieseltzer](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/carrieseltzer)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rocks-minerals/8981/2 "2019-12-29T21:13:49Z")

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iNaturalist doesn’t have anything for rocks and minerals, but I’ve heard good things about an app called Rockd: [https://rockd.org/](https://rockd.org/)

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**Author:** ![graysquirrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/graysquirrel/32/127_2.png) [@graysquirrel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/graysquirrel)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rocks-minerals/8981/3 "2019-12-29T21:44:38Z")

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I highly recommend [https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisrock/](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisrock/)

That said, I’d love to see a geology-based citizen science project similar to iNaturalist someday. That’d be really cool!

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**Author:** ![BrownsBay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/brownsbay/32/792_2.png) [@BrownsBay](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/BrownsBay)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rocks-minerals/8981/4 "2019-12-29T22:32:53Z")

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It’s a challenge when geology has already been well mapped across the country, much in great detail.

[National Geologic Map Database](https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ngmdb/ngmdb_home.html)

Geology is more than just rock & minerals. There are structural features like folds and faults. There’s stratigraphy, mineralogy, paleontology, and on and on.

The best approach is to have something like geocache or waypoint, where someone could log a location of geologic interest, like an interesting outcrop of eclogite, or fossils, or a cliff where a sequence of glacial stratigraphy is exposed.

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**Author:** ![earthknight](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/earthknight/32/32879_2.png) [@earthknight](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/earthknight)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rocks-minerals/8981/5 "2019-12-30T00:43:47Z")

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[https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/](https://www.reddit.com/r/geology/) can be a good resource as well.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rocks-minerals/8981/6 "2020-02-28T00:43:49Z")

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