A ROCK is more than just stony stuff. It’s also a vital clue to how life and landscape evolved. Geodiversity – the variety of rocks in all their forms – is as crucial in mapping the history of the Earth as biodiversity is in tracing the evolution of its life forms.
Is geodiversity as threatened today as biodiversity is? Apparently so. Rock collectors, fossil hunters and others are defacing or removing formations to such an extent that in some places they are irreversibly altering the landscape, making it a lot harder to discern the conditions in which, say, a volcano formed or…
