The third Annual Rock Flipping Day will be on September 20th this year. So start scouting for good places to go and be ready to participate.
And if you find cool critters under the rock, you can always submit your posts to the Friday Ark, of which the issue #259 is now live on Modulator.
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The law of superimposition says that stuff found on top is younger than stuff found lower down, in a geological or archaeological column. This is generally true, but there are exceptions, mostly trivial and easily understood.
Bora wants some scientist rock stars
Astronomy obliges!
The cores of mountain belts formed by continental collisions often contain metamorphic rocks, formed when sediments were buried in the collision and transformed by heat and pressure.
The 20th may be Rock Flipping Day, but every day is Bash New Scientist Day!
(I won't have time this weekend to look into this, so I'm calling on the powers of the Interwebs to do the work for me.)