Geology is the Way did not start as an educational website. I simply love to go in the field and look at rocks under the microscope and I like to share my stuff on the social media. However, as soon as I started building this website, I realized how difficult it is to find clear geological material out there. In many cases, geology pics found online are misleading, mislabeled or simply are not on the free domain, making it difficult for educators to reuse them in lectures.

After realizing this, GW became almost like a mission to me. Yes, still a hobby, but also a mission: I started to go into the field on weekends to actually find the rocks/structures that I could not find on the web (in some cases not even in publications), trying to explain them with simple terms, to make them accessible for everyone. Sometimes even producing new charts/graphs/figures that may improve the understanding of a concept. There are many things I tend to forget even if I learned them as a student and that I often need to browse in the web: at some point I wrote text or created charts to remember them and I am now sharing it here.

By doing so, I really hope that the material I post here might be useful for learning or simply be a pleasant read for anyone interested in our beautiful planet Earth!

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