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Post by snowmom on May 2, 2015 3:35:55 GMT -5
Neat! Kind of like a crystalline desert rose. Scorpions and rocks seem to go hand in hand. I sat on a scorpion in my Barker lounger last week. Hurt like a son of a gun. Dang thing crawled back down into the cushion before I could get him but he came out again a couple of days later and I had my revenge. Dang bark scorpions anyway!.....Mel hurt like a son of a gun, probably what the scorp was thinking when you sat on him! ( revenge is sweet).
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Post by snowmom on May 2, 2015 3:32:45 GMT -5
snowdog grab it and growl! keep us posted
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Post by snowmom on May 2, 2015 3:31:14 GMT -5
Dang, I used to live right there!!! grrrr. 9 hours away now
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Post by snowmom on May 1, 2015 4:04:04 GMT -5
aaaack! a HANDFUL of scorpions? talk about aversion therapy! beautiful rock though.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 30, 2015 16:42:43 GMT -5
that brecciated jasper is gorgeous!
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Post by snowmom on Apr 30, 2015 6:03:50 GMT -5
wow! thanks for this. very helpful!
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Post by snowmom on Apr 30, 2015 5:57:45 GMT -5
makes me think of the banded iron jaspers found here, really an ancient rock. If it could talk! Surely makes you think when you come across something like this. Thanks for showing it to us!
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Post by snowmom on Apr 30, 2015 5:53:55 GMT -5
fun and interesting, definite yea- being a lover of conglomerates and breccias I like the ones which are loaded together without much clear area showing in between, though I understand the clear has appeal as well. You are on to something, keep them coming! watching with interest.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 30, 2015 5:39:48 GMT -5
Thanks for the feedback bushmanbilly, I am hoping to be able to be patient through the scripted (stuff) so I can watch the minute or two of actual operations in the program. being "reality TV" you expect all the scripted junk, there's a lesson there somewhere. I want to see that saw in action. I am not surprised at the prices quoted, The Chinese are so hungry for jade, there is a real demand for it right now. Can't wait to at least try to watch it when it is offered in June.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 30, 2015 5:31:16 GMT -5
Those are Thamnopora (Pachypora) supposedly found in areas over the world from Early Silurian period to Late Permian. Most of the corals we find here are from the Devonian Era.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 30, 2015 5:21:56 GMT -5
I also found a nice hawk/eye tiger eye and this gorgeous unakite serpentinite beast. This is the most fascinating stretch of beach I've found yet. The waves here are rarely quiet but I think wading in the shallow bay will be most rewarding if I can get out there before white calcium slime and algae cover things soon. There is at least as much rock out there under about 2 ft of water as there is on the shore. The little cove is pretty shallow and rocky for quite a distance from shore. Oh, and did I mention I found pudding stone matrix everywhere and even brought home a couple of those? yep, this is about to become my favorite stretch of beach.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 30, 2015 5:16:14 GMT -5
I broke my heart over this piece of Onaping, It had metal all through one end and it was too big to lift. You can see where it has been broken, possibly by somebody smashing it with a rock so they could take a piece of it... and it is badly worn, which is what allowed all that shiny nickel ore to show through. I brought home only 6 rocks, several Onapings, including one which may be very similar to the WTF breccia find last year, it seems to have a white matrix instead of black, It is hard to tell under the staining from the water just what it will look like. [/URL
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Post by snowmom on Apr 30, 2015 5:08:08 GMT -5
Went to explore a section of beach that I had not been on before early this week. I'll be going back. Here it is, a quiet cove on Lake Huron's SW shore. Much of the year this area is covered with an inch of slimy water, filled with rough grasses and small scrub- and mosquitoes. The Lake is not quite as high as it will be by June and the grass has not grown, skeeters are not mature enough to bite yet but by the end of the week they will be. They were swarming me yesterday. The best hunting here seems to be very early spring when frosts are still frequent. That keeps the algae from forming on the newly ice-cleaned rocks. So- off I go for a week or so yet before the very best rock picking is finished for the season. I went here.
the shore is filled with glacial erratics. I walked for about a mile, crossing one area which was pretty wet, and which probably thwarts all but the hardiest of rock hunters from going farther on later in the season. I knew I was on to something good when I started noticing huge rocks of Onaping Impact Breccia
this one was about 24 inches high, 24 inches wide and about 36 inches long. That's a pint capacity plastic cup I used for wetting the rocks sitting next to it for scale. There were boulders of onaping that were bigger. I stood on a couple near the shore. There were lots of serpentine, basalt with epidote vesicles and this one which was pretty dramatic.
I saw a lot of Rocks which had shiny metal nuggets in them, including this interesting granite.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 29, 2015 5:35:48 GMT -5
very helpful and informative. thank you for this post!
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Post by snowmom on Apr 29, 2015 5:15:20 GMT -5
making it pay from the beginning! nice agate. Can't wait to see all the pictures of your cuts...
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Post by snowmom on Apr 29, 2015 4:44:02 GMT -5
don't forget the photos and trip report!
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Post by snowmom on Apr 28, 2015 6:08:29 GMT -5
welcome!
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Post by snowmom on Apr 28, 2015 6:06:26 GMT -5
Welcome Karen from northern Michigan
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Post by snowmom on Apr 28, 2015 5:55:18 GMT -5
very clever indeed.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 28, 2015 5:11:31 GMT -5
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