• Question: Do you like rocks

    Asked by snap536cere36 to scottgriffiths, Liam H, Hannah G on 15 Dec 2025.
    • Photo: Liam Herringshaw

      Liam Herringshaw answered on 15 Dec 2025:

      I do! I’m a geologist, a scientist who studies rocks, so liking rocks is probably a key part of my job. I think the coolest thing is that every rock has a story to tell about Earth history – how a volcano erupted, how a mountain was made, how an ancient river flowed, where an ancient creature lived. If you know how to read rocks, you can tell a story more than 4.5 billion years in the making!

    • Photo: Scott Griffiths

      Scott Griffiths answered on 18 Dec 2025:

      Yes! They are very fascinating and you can learn a lot about the environment the sediments (that later became rock) were deposited in. For instance, even the colour can tell you lots. If you see a red rock, the likelihood it contains lots of minerals containing iron (basically rust!), such as haematite. Rocks also contain fossils which can indicate the age of the rock as the time the organism was alive indicates when the sediment creating the rock was deposited.

      Effectively, understanding the features of rocks is like looking back in time!

    • Photo: Hannah Gow

      Hannah Gow answered on 19 Dec 2025:

      I Luuuuuurve rocks 🪨 Everything starts with a rock, the earth is made from rocks!

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