jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 2, 2013 7:57:19 GMT -5
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 2, 2013 9:23:32 GMT -5
Definitely doesn't look like something you'd want to see come up through the bottom of your boat! Cool looking stuff, though, lots of stuff going on.
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grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Aug 2, 2013 9:43:25 GMT -5
Dang, that is some wild yard art. I did not realize that Florida had bedrock made of such varied marine life.
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panamark
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Post by panamark on Aug 2, 2013 11:09:51 GMT -5
James, that looks exactly like the twisted limestone rocks I have as part of my seawall in Panama. Yours has bit more fossils, but I do have one I kept because I broke it open and a sea urchin spine is sticking out. Maybe I can have someone work out a nice urchin fossil.
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 3, 2013 12:10:19 GMT -5
Wow, what cool looking yard art those would make....Mel
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Post by Pat on Aug 3, 2013 12:43:58 GMT -5
Neat blobs and beautiful scenery. I've seen embedded marine fossils, but not in such shapes. Thanks!
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 3, 2013 13:05:58 GMT -5
I have seen that material from a well drilled to 400 feet of that rock with fossils coming out of the borehole the whole time. They say the Ocala Aquifer is 2 miles deep and I think it is all fossiliferous chert and limestone. There is 2 river crossings in that town made entirely of that rock and the gravel has fine spearheads, silicified bivalves, echinoids to perfection, heat treated coral chips, finger coral, oysters and killer long leaf pine knots. Some of my finest and oldest artiacts from those 2 crossings. That stuff is notorious for removing skin and replacing it with an infection. Like coral or oysters do. Pine knots  |
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Post by panamark on Aug 9, 2013 15:22:26 GMT -5
I have seen that material from a well drilled to 400 feet of that rock with fossils coming out of the borehole the whole time. They say the Ocala Aquifer is 2 miles deep and I think it is all fossiliferous chert and limestone. There is 2 river crossings in that town made entirely of that rock and the gravel has fine spearheads, silicified bivalves, echinoids to perfection, heat treated coral chips, finger coral, oysters and killer long leaf pine knots. Some of my finest and oldest artiacts from those 2 crossings. That stuff is notorious for removing skin and replacing it with an infection. Like coral or oysters do. Pine knots Hey, is that Don? |
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Post by kk on Aug 9, 2013 18:27:27 GMT -5
Now, I got a rather stupid question here.
Is that wood fully fossilized? Or is it just very dry wood?
If fully fossilized, and if it comes in smaller pieces with knots, I would love to buy some if you got some for sale.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 9, 2013 20:57:10 GMT -5
I am scared to say Mark. I already posted his fossilized bicycle. I best not take any more stabs at Don. Them old schoolers got some real grit
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Post by jamesp on Aug 9, 2013 21:09:11 GMT -5
Kurt Here in the south our pine trees die and rot away w/the exception of the sap soaked center, knots and stump. I have seen the same in the Sierras when pitch pines die. The coral rivers are full of these knots. They are not petrified but full of resin. The sap/resin is famous for plastic ingredient, 'lighter wood' for starting fires, and baseball pitchers using it on their hands to grip the ball. I have found old stumps that weighed 100's of pounds and they will burn for 16 years(not really) You may have them in your forests. Many pines/conifers leave these resin saturated knots behind. So they are not petrified but resin soaked. Check images www.google.com/search?q=pine+knots+for+carving&rlz=1T4TSNF_enUS531US531&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=T54FUsv1FMm62AX_vIHIBw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1339&bih=549
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