Post by herchenx on Aug 11, 2012 23:12:34 GMT -5
Well last night I took my oldest son and a friend and went back to an area I hounded a few months back.
This time I was hounding for big-boy rocks for the yard, although I picked up a lot of small stuff along the way.
We succeeded and I learned a thing or two about geology in the process.
Here is a pic of the bed of the truck, most of it anyhow, when we arrived here at home
My buddy and I managed to haul a 250-300 pound piece of wind-faceted basalt to the truck, up a ridiculous hill. You can see it sort of in the center.
I had found large yellow jasper-y rocks on my last trip, and brought one home, but when I broke a smaller piece apart in the field last time, they were either fully limestone, or semi-limestone, semi chert/jasper-y. This trip, I found a very large piece, probably 150+ pounds, that is on the top left, but it has a distinct band of chert all the way through.
On another hill not far away, I found some really pretty half-transformed lime-chert, that is banded and really pretty colors. It is in smaller pieces in one of the red bags.
One hill over, and the material was large dendritic jasper, some nicely brecciated to boot. It is all formed, I think, from this limestone that is all over the place. You can see the large jaspers, running 40 or so pounds each, to the right of the large limestone/chert I mentioned earlier.
Along the way we found some really nice wood, I'll get better pics of that later, and in some other bags nice agates, banded and botryoidal - and more large 10-poundish brecciated jaspers.
We had a great time, my son had an absolute blast, we got to explore more terrain and at every turn we found new stuff and I learned a good bit about the process of the local jasper and chert formation.
Corben and a teeny horned toad he found, then released
Corben in a slate-lined wash we explored
This time I was hounding for big-boy rocks for the yard, although I picked up a lot of small stuff along the way.
We succeeded and I learned a thing or two about geology in the process.
Here is a pic of the bed of the truck, most of it anyhow, when we arrived here at home
My buddy and I managed to haul a 250-300 pound piece of wind-faceted basalt to the truck, up a ridiculous hill. You can see it sort of in the center.
I had found large yellow jasper-y rocks on my last trip, and brought one home, but when I broke a smaller piece apart in the field last time, they were either fully limestone, or semi-limestone, semi chert/jasper-y. This trip, I found a very large piece, probably 150+ pounds, that is on the top left, but it has a distinct band of chert all the way through.
On another hill not far away, I found some really pretty half-transformed lime-chert, that is banded and really pretty colors. It is in smaller pieces in one of the red bags.
One hill over, and the material was large dendritic jasper, some nicely brecciated to boot. It is all formed, I think, from this limestone that is all over the place. You can see the large jaspers, running 40 or so pounds each, to the right of the large limestone/chert I mentioned earlier.
Along the way we found some really nice wood, I'll get better pics of that later, and in some other bags nice agates, banded and botryoidal - and more large 10-poundish brecciated jaspers.
We had a great time, my son had an absolute blast, we got to explore more terrain and at every turn we found new stuff and I learned a good bit about the process of the local jasper and chert formation.
Corben and a teeny horned toad he found, then released
Corben in a slate-lined wash we explored