Rogue Trader
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Post by Rogue Trader on Dec 14, 2008 18:46:12 GMT -5
I was reading a post where steveholmes was Grrrrr'ing at someone because they had found a huge piece of flint, which got me thinking about the bucket full of flint nodules that have been sat in my garage for well over a year. I went out to the garage, grabbed a few hands full of nodules, bought then into the house and gave them a gentle wash/scrub. This is what I found on one of them. It looks like a blue flower to me (I'm guessing blue because colour blind, but it looks blue.) Any ideas what it could be?
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 14, 2008 18:50:01 GMT -5
Looks like a fossil embedded in the flint, maybe a cross section of a crinoid column...Mel
PS: I think Steve was growling at me because he's freezin his patootie off up in snow country while I wile away my days in mellow sunshine down here in Texas *S*
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Rogue Trader
freely admits to licking rocks
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Post by Rogue Trader on Dec 14, 2008 18:53:32 GMT -5
Looks like a fossil embedded in the flint, maybe a cross section of a crinoid column...Mel PS: I think Steve was growling at me because he's freezin his patootie off up in snow country while I wile away my days in mellow sunshine down here in Texas *S* Thanks me that means nothing to me that errr ummm crinoid column. Is it polishable would you know?
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 14, 2008 19:50:14 GMT -5
Rogue: If it's in flint, it should polish very well. I even have great luck polishing crinodal limestone. Crinoids or "Sea Lilies" are related to starfish but are usually attached to the sea floor by a stem or column of discoidal segments.Uncommon now days but very common in shallow seas of the Pennsylvanian period and other ancient times. Crinoids column segments in limestone: .....Mel
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SteveHolmes
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Post by SteveHolmes on Dec 14, 2008 19:54:57 GMT -5
Your Dead Right Mel! ;D I don't know what it is...but I'd take Mels word for it. He's a Genius. Steve
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