Picture on the left: me as a child looking at/touching a huge garnet at the Barton Garnet Mine in the Adirondacks of NYS

Picture on the right: me about 20 years later, a geologist, at the American Museum of Natural History touching a rock from the same mine while filming my own geology show 🪨🤗

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud

Have you seen these rare icy hairs before? It forms thanks to a fungus?! ❄️🍄

This is hair ice, aka ice wool & frost beard. It’s a rare phenomenon because it needs specific conditions to grow, including just below freezing temperatures and the presence of a specific fungus called Exidiopsis effusa!

Hi! I’m new here. 🤓 My name is Becky and I’m a Geologist and Science Communicator.

My goal is to see as many cool rocks on our planet as possible - and share with you what it is that makes them so cool. 🪨🤓

Follow me to see our planet through a new lens 🔎