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Appreciation post: I used to think the whole 'concretions in sandstone' thing was just random rocks
I saw some round ones in a creek bed near my house and thought they were just river stones, but a friend from the university geology club showed me how they form from mineral cement. Now I look at every lumpy sandstone outcrop differently. Has anyone else had a basic concept they dismissed that turned out to be a major feature?
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nora_coleman697mo ago
My uncle used to point out fossilized ripple marks on slabs of flagstone and I just saw them as weird texture. It took a park ranger explaining it for me to realize I was looking at the exact pattern from a beach, just turned to stone. That kind of shift in seeing things is pretty wild. It makes you wonder what else we're all walking past every day without really seeing it.
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nancym345mo ago
Oh man that reminds me of this time I was hiking with my cousin and he kept stopping to look at these weird rocks. I thought he was just messing around but turns out they were old volcanic rocks with crystals in them. I never even noticed them after that first time. Its funny how once someone points something out you start seeing it everywhere.
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tessagarcia6mo ago
But what if we're better off not seeing everything? Some stuff is just background noise, and that's fine. Not every little thing needs to be a big revelation.
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