Shoutout to the park ranger who told me to look for the green layer

I was hiking in the Badlands last fall and picked up a plain gray rock. A ranger named Carl said, 'Flip it over, the good stuff is on the bottom.' I did, and there was this thin, bright green band of what he said was glauconite. I never would have seen it. Has anyone else had a guide point out something you totally missed on a rock?

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jamiemiller6mo ago

Reminds me how much we miss by not knowing where to look. A friend once showed me the tiny fossils in a chunk of limestone I thought was just a boring sidewalk rock. It makes you wonder what else is right in front of us.

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anna_hill6mo ago

Exactly, @jamiemiller, it's like we're all just walking past the good stuff most days.

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noahclark5mo ago

I started carrying a small notebook to jot down one beautiful thing I see each day.

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