• Question: What is you favourite rock

    Asked by went532data62 to Pete Webb, niamhtopping, Katherine, joshuahollowood, jonathanmound, Catherine Mcquillan on 22 Oct 2025.
    • Photo: Jonathan Mound

      Jonathan Mound answered on 22 Oct 2025:

      I like columnar basalt, like the rocks at Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. These are igneous rocks where as the lava slowly cooled from the top down, it cracked into hexagonal patterns (sort of like a honeycomb). This cracks then grew down as the lava continued to cool making a big collection of long hexagon pillars.

    • Photo: Joshua Hollowood

      Joshua Hollowood answered on 22 Oct 2025:

      My favourite rock is an Impactite. These form because of meteorite impacts on the Earth’s surface

    • Photo: Pete Webb

      Pete Webb answered on 22 Oct 2025:

      My favourite rock is italcolumite. It’s a sandstone that when cut into thin slabs is flexible. You can actually bend it between your fingers, which feels really weird!

    • Photo: Niamh Topping

      Niamh Topping answered on 22 Oct 2025:

      This is a really hard question…igneous rocks are my favourite type. BUT one of my favourite rocks is eclogite, which is actually metamorphic!

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