Field Identification
A developing workspace for evidence-led field identification.
Field Identification will guide users through observable features, physical properties, simple field tests, and geological context to progressively narrow possible interpretations. The workspace provides a framework for careful comparison and leaves definitive identification to further evidence and expert review.
Review planned instruments01 / Identification method
Record visible form, texture, structure, color, scale, and condition before interpretation.
Use appropriate physical properties and simple field tests without overstating what they establish.
Review the evidence against plausible groups, materials, processes, and geological context.
Retain multiple interpretations when evidence is incomplete or important diagnostic features are absent.
02 / Planned instruments
These cards describe the intended analytical scope. The individual tools are not yet available and are intentionally non-interactive.
Narrow possible rock types using texture, grain size, composition, visible structures, hardness, fracture behavior, and simple field tests.
Scaffolding only · Not yet interactive
Compare minerals using color, streak, luster, hardness, cleavage, fracture, density, magnetism, and acid reaction.
Scaffolding only · Not yet interactive
Examine morphology, symmetry, material, preservation style, skeletal structure, and geological context to narrow possible fossil groups.
Appearance alone cannot establish an exact species.
Scaffolding only · Not yet interactive
Identify bedding, cross-bedding, ripple marks, mud cracks, graded beds, trace structures, and other evidence of depositional processes.
Scaffolding only · Not yet interactive
Analysis directory
Review Environmental Analysis alongside future measurement, interpretation, and laboratory capabilities.