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Post by snowmom on Jun 10, 2016 6:42:30 GMT -5
you haven't lost the touch!
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Post by snowmom on Jun 6, 2016 5:30:20 GMT -5
Cladapora is found in what matrix. I don't know what the matrix is called. snowmom ? the matrix is shale.
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Post by snowmom on Jun 1, 2016 15:38:45 GMT -5
I've seen these off and on- have developed a new interest in them since finding so many fossils of bryozoans and stromatolites, etc here. Now i want one for a pet... only a little worried about it coming out of its tank at night to get us in our sleep. I saw "the Blob" with Steve McQueen when i was about 4 years old and had nightmares based on that for years and years afterwards.
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Post by snowmom on Jun 1, 2016 15:34:04 GMT -5
wow JamesP makes me think of all sorts of things for yard projects. You always busy with new stuff, so creative! I like that free form pallet sculpture in the first image too
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Post by snowmom on Jun 1, 2016 15:30:23 GMT -5
I've only been home about 5 weeks in the past 7-8 months but in that time have managed to get in a little woods and water sanity time. Spent about 10 hours on the shores of Lake Huron yesterday and had a case of deja vu. I exercised great restraint in that this was the only rock i brought home. but I think i'll like it. a year or 2 ago I found this which Arrowhead Dave agreed to accept and cut in exchange for showing me the photos. (this image stolen from the one he posted on this site for us to see) and this is the one found yesterday. I am daring to hope i have another epidosite like the first. maybe another trip to the lake in a couple of days. Gee its good to be back home again! (yes it is)
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Post by snowmom on May 27, 2016 6:15:01 GMT -5
quartz it is most certainly an information gathering program first and foremost. I hate the photo program included with it, not nearly as easy to use as the old one. even email requires extra steps. I suppose if i'd allowed the automatic command feature i wouldn't have as many steps to work through. shotgunner, you hit it right on the head. malware x 10 !
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Post by snowmom on May 27, 2016 6:13:51 GMT -5
quartz it is most certainly an information gathering program first and foremost. I hate the photo program included with it, not nearly as easy to use as the old one. even email requires extra steps. I suppose if i'd allowed the automatic command feature i wouldn't have as many steps to work through. shotgunner, you hit it right on the head. malware x 10 !
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Post by snowmom on May 25, 2016 8:09:49 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on May 24, 2016 7:19:10 GMT -5
all beautiful! I see the stripes Garagerocker, in your later photos... Shotgunner, those are amazing. Thanks for taking the time to show us the variety and the beauty in them. I caught uncountable garter snakes as a kid, the ones in northern il were greens and had a yellow dorsal stripe, with black and ivory accents... snappers abound in our area. so prehistoric. i came across a huge mossback mama striding along a path last spring, up all the way on all 4, with her head held high tail extended behind.(looking for a nesting site and distressed on the limestone where she was- no sand close by) she made me believe i'd seen a dinosaur... awesome.
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Post by snowmom on May 23, 2016 5:57:08 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on May 23, 2016 5:50:22 GMT -5
thats a garter snake? Looks quite different from the ones in IL and MI....the ones here seem to be more brightly colored. we have been taking daily walks near the Fox and Illinois river while here in IL and there are snakes in every bush, sunning themselves.. quite a variety too... watersnakes are just waking up in MI, still in the 30s there at night. Time to start looking for baby turtles...
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Post by snowmom on May 21, 2016 6:11:18 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on May 19, 2016 5:04:26 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on May 11, 2016 7:01:36 GMT -5
hey Rick, your onyx post made me want to take a look at calcite and marble, alabaster... some images are pretty close... Lord knows Michigan is all about gypsum, calcite and limestone, so I'm going to try to do more searching. Here are a couple of photos of the stuff i have which i think might be at least cousin to yours. top photo I was thinking the green one what do you think?
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Post by snowmom on May 11, 2016 6:27:08 GMT -5
I think the last photo is variolite... deteriorating basalt... the high areas are harder than the surrounding matrix. I find a lot of them here at the east side of the tip of the mitt in Mi. Ive found my share of the stuff in your photo too, I always thought it might be serpentizing feldspar... many people identify it as unakite if shown the outside, usually mild epidote-like green, white and a bit of red....but i am not sure this really qualifies since i am unsure of quartz and if the larger texture qualifies as granite. I have been at a loss to come up with another name. they cut and polish real pretty. Would be nice i we could see photos of the exterior of some of your similar finds...
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Post by snowmom on Apr 23, 2016 7:19:56 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Apr 23, 2016 7:17:04 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Apr 23, 2016 7:04:40 GMT -5
that is the Middle Island sink hole. That and Isolate and Misery Bay sink holes are the ones discussed in the link i posted back a bit in this thread. The water vented from them is also high in sulfur and there are very few fish found near these holes... microbes that grow no place else on earth have been found at varying depths around the mouths of these. Rob, is Mystery falls part of the mystery valley formation and sink hole? The photo of the falls looks familiar... then, yes, i have seen it and explored it... it is now part of the Michigan Karst Conservancy and open to the public. Absolutely awesome wonder. The water from this sinkhole is believed to be let out in the sink holes at Middle Island and Misery Bay. Evidently traced by radiation isotopes recently. Paper just released!
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Post by snowmom on Apr 22, 2016 6:27:47 GMT -5
Pudding stone has become a very popular rock to pick up lately so the beaches are getting pretty picked over. Even the shores of Drummond have been hit pretty hard. I do some shore hounding via kayak and even snorkel for them but my best finds have all been forest hunting. Yeah, they are scarce on the beaches up there because you have them all, silly. I'm glad you admit that your pudding stone habit is out of control Seriously though, I'm not out to make a killing. I'll just be happy to find a couple I can slab and make some cabs with. Fist size would be big enough. I am assured by my daughter that I will find a nice stone or two in the woods at Hackett Lake so any finds at the beach will be a bonus for us. I have never been on the Lake Huron side of Michigan before though and it's something I've been looking forward to doing. Still, I'm hoping to find something interesting there at least. Making some nice Michigan pudding stone cabs and pendants is on my bucket list so here's my chance. I would add that I think it ( pudding stone) has been a popular stone to hunt around the tip of the mitt for 100 years or more... I have met people here who proudly show off the pudding stone handed down in the family from grandpa or great grandpa...
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Post by snowmom on Apr 22, 2016 6:24:48 GMT -5
I've been exploring at most of the sink holes around here. There are outlets in Lake Huron very near Alpena where water from sinkholes and draining karst pours into the lake. The areas where this happen are high in sulfur and don't freeze over (usually)... they have their own colonies of rare microbes which have developed there. www.lakescientist.com/anatomy-lake-huron-sinkholes/ the tip of the mitt ( especially the east side) has lots of fascinating geological features to explore.
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