Post by oriongal on Sept 13, 2009 14:53:04 GMT -5
Haven't been here in a long while - been traveling so much that my tumblers have been silent for some time now. I've missed them...
But recently, while on a trip to southern Missouri (specifically, Hartville/Mountain Grove area), I had an opportunity to do a little rockhounding - a first for me, being a Floridian who doesn't get to find rocks but must instead trade for them or buy them. [Kind of a funny story how this came about, as well - we were visiting cousins who have a farm, and at breakfast my mom's cousin was teasing her about picking rocks out of the garden (Mom is in her 70's, so this was definitely not a serious request). My ears perked up at this and I offered to do it, if they'd let me keep some of what I found - they thought I was crazy for wanting to take rocks back with me, but they humored me. I picked about three 5-gallon buckets' worth out of the garden, and kept about one 5-gal bucket's worth; and told them I'd send some of them back once tumbled, so they could see what I could already 'see' in them.]
But - I have no idea what they are. Some I think are petrified wood, and a couple are some sort of fossil rock (turritella, shell?) but the rest - no idea. Thought I'd take/post a few pics before any of them went to the saw or into the tumbler, see if anyone else knows or has a general idea what they are.
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Kind of quartz-y
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This one is interesting - by look and general texture at a distance, it is like sandstone - but by feel and at closer look, it's more like quartz.
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Pet wood? By grain I would not have thought so, but by shape it does look like a piece of tree branch. Next two are other views of this piece..
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Another of the sandstone-like, quartz-like rocks...
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Pet wood?
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Shells and worm-tubes...
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As always, help is appreciated...
But recently, while on a trip to southern Missouri (specifically, Hartville/Mountain Grove area), I had an opportunity to do a little rockhounding - a first for me, being a Floridian who doesn't get to find rocks but must instead trade for them or buy them. [Kind of a funny story how this came about, as well - we were visiting cousins who have a farm, and at breakfast my mom's cousin was teasing her about picking rocks out of the garden (Mom is in her 70's, so this was definitely not a serious request). My ears perked up at this and I offered to do it, if they'd let me keep some of what I found - they thought I was crazy for wanting to take rocks back with me, but they humored me. I picked about three 5-gallon buckets' worth out of the garden, and kept about one 5-gal bucket's worth; and told them I'd send some of them back once tumbled, so they could see what I could already 'see' in them.]
But - I have no idea what they are. Some I think are petrified wood, and a couple are some sort of fossil rock (turritella, shell?) but the rest - no idea. Thought I'd take/post a few pics before any of them went to the saw or into the tumbler, see if anyone else knows or has a general idea what they are.
1.
Kind of quartz-y
2.
3.
4.
This one is interesting - by look and general texture at a distance, it is like sandstone - but by feel and at closer look, it's more like quartz.
5.
Pet wood? By grain I would not have thought so, but by shape it does look like a piece of tree branch. Next two are other views of this piece..
6.
7.
Another of the sandstone-like, quartz-like rocks...
8.
Pet wood?
9.
Shells and worm-tubes...
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
As always, help is appreciated...