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Best Places to Find Rocks

 
The best places you can actually find rocks are from the streets or road cuts. You can be climbing hill or mountains and find some great rocks that if you actually break into two you wouldn't be able to figure out what it is inside of it. There are many and very great looking rocks out here, but if you are looking a for a particular rock it all depends what kind of rock you are looking for. However, the most known place for looking for rocks is the great interior plains and lowlands of the United States. The mountains and cliffs have many variety of rocks as well. Some of the rocks that you can juss find walking down your street are...

 

  • Biolithite


  • Fossiliferous limestone


  • Chalk


  • Crystalline Limestone


  • Travertine


  • Carbonate Breccia


  • Carbonate Conglomerate


  • Carbonate Conglomerate


  • Carbonate Sandstone


  • Micrite


  • Argillaceous Limestone


  • Lithic Sandstone


  • Conglomerate

 

Those are some of the rocks that you can find probably anywhere around you, maybe not right in your backyard, but I guarantee, you dont' have to make long trips for these particular rocks.

 

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