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Post by stonesthatrock on Jun 10, 2010 10:55:49 GMT -5
my friend stop by yesterday to bring ralph a couple slabs to cab up....... this stuff is pretty cool and the large slab only have 1 fracture...... i had to get out the handcuffs and get ralph working on it..... lol Its has some quartz in the center of the orbs, so i can wait to see how this polishes......   Anyone know what these are, i'm thinking a petrified palm wood of some kind.   ty mary ann |
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Post by NatureNut on Jun 10, 2010 12:29:45 GMT -5
Wow, that is cool rock. So, would that be a type of puddingstone? Can't wait to see it polished.
Mary Ann, you will get more work with some sugar. Time to break out the sexy lingerie?
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chromenut
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Post by chromenut on Jun 10, 2010 12:43:57 GMT -5
I tried the sexy lingerie with my wife and all she did was laugh....sigh.....
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Post by stonesthatrock on Jun 10, 2010 14:32:21 GMT -5
omg......... now that funny......... lmao
i don't believe its a puddingstone because its so solid.
mary ann
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 10, 2010 20:25:09 GMT -5
Wow that first one is strange. Looks almost like a hematite rich jasper matrix with a conglomerate of little geodes. The second one is what we called palm bog back in California. Basically petrified sediment with little rootlets running through it. Lots of it just like that by the Yermo city dumpsite....Mel
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Post by stonesthatrock on Jun 10, 2010 21:58:09 GMT -5
ralph tried cabbing a slab.......... yuck....... no shine at all, almost muddy. Oh well....
Ty mel, i thought it was something like that...
mary ann
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rock
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Post by rock on Jun 13, 2010 11:51:05 GMT -5
I'd say the polkadot stuff is possibly potassium-rich amygdaloidal basalt. could be wrong about the potasium, but high K seems to make things bright orange/red/pink. Our amygdaloidal basalt here in Vermont has more epidote/greens, less potasium. It looks sweet.
I'm not sure about the other stuff though.
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Post by stonesthatrock on Jun 13, 2010 15:43:56 GMT -5
ty rock....... it doesn't polish well at all.....
mary ann
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Post by 150FromFundy on Jun 14, 2010 9:37:56 GMT -5
As "rcok" suggested, your polka-dot rock looks like a common occurence along the Bay of Fundy. We have soft amygdaloidal bassalt that is peppered with zeolites. Chances are the centres that may look like quartz are really soft. They may be stilbite, heulandite, etc. Even the amygdaloidal basalt is soft. Beautiful to look at, but only as an interewstong sample.
Darryl.
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