https://kylec.dreamwidth.org/ The Map Collector - Dreamwidth Studios Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:47:51 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios kylec personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/17927388/3596207 https://kylec.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://kylec.dreamwidth.org/9514.html Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:47:51 GMT https://kylec.dreamwidth.org/9514.html Rock, apparently, is not a synonym for stone. Now, I know a lot of words, and the definitions to most of them, but I went a little over three decades before I encountered this geological distinction in an anecdote that Barry Lopez shares in his book Horizon—a distinction that he, too, missed for years. A rock is still what you would expect. The hard stuff made of minerals. A stone, however, is a rock that has been modified in some way for human use. Crushed for gravel, shaped for a cornerstone, knapped into an arrowhead. I guess that means that rocks belong to geologists, and stones to archaeologists*. <br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://kylec.dreamwidth.org/9514.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kylec&ditemid=9514" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://kylec.dreamwidth.org/9514.html 010 016 015 001 public 0