Thanks for the one you mentioned as well. I’ll have to look for it also.
I have always been slightly interested in geology but mostly it was just in the background of botany. Like a cool fact that this plant only grows here , or this subspecies is only found here because it’s a different soil type because of different rocks that are being weathered down.
Like on the southern western side of a mountain it may predominantly be sandstone and lots of lime and some marble because of all marine life that use to be there because the ocean came up to that point. But you travel north 4 miles and then head back down and find a spot that’s predominantly a serpentine area with endemic plants there.
But I don’t know anywhere near enough about this. I want to “dig” into this subject to plan future hikes around different soil types created by different parent rocks from different periods and so on. Just keep adding layers to my understanding of habitats and ecology. Plus I want to start collecting minerals and fossils. I get nerdy about things others won’t even notice.
Like I want to build bookshelves out of different types of trees that had their family evolve during this or that era and then line it with rocks more
Common from that area and so on.