rock hammer
Prospector's pointed tool
A rock hammer is a small hammer with a flat head on one side and a pick or chisel on the other, used by geologists and paleontologists to break and examine rock samples in the field.
Also called a geologist's hammer or rock pick.
She chipped away at the shale with her rock hammer, looking for fossils.
- geologistStudies rocks and minerals
- chiselEdged carving implement
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
- fossil huntingSeeking preserved ancient organisms
- pickaxePointed digging implement
hand tool · quarry · stone · mining · specimen · crack · chip · shale · fieldwork · outcrop · sedimentary layer · sediment · excavation · prospecting · geology · mineralogy · split · break apart
- striking toolssledgehammer, rubber mallet, mallets, mallet, wooden mallet
- fieldwork toolstrowel, brush, shovel, pickaxe, sieve
- gold mininggold pan, pan, panning, nuggets, gold nugget
- rockhoundinggeodes, quartz, agate, amethyst, specimens
- field instrumentsinclinometer, hand lens, clinometer, core drill, gravimeter
- geology toolshand lens, streak plate, thin section, loupe, field notebook
rock hammersledgehammer
Massive long-handled mallet
jackhammer · pile driver · maul · wrecking ball · dynamite
rock hammermass spectrometer
Identifies compounds by atomic weight
electron microscope · seismograph · satellite imaging · core drill
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