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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Sept 5, 2013 18:37:33 GMT -5
We went back to our cottage over Labor Day weekend and did some more rock hounding and these are some more Lake Huron beach finds. I have never seen this before. any ideas of what it is? For now I am just calling it dark pudding stone. Hopefully I can get some cabs cut from these this weekend. this is the end cut This one is still in the saw but here are the first two cuts. I am sure its just quartz but I like the peachy color of it. Thanks for looking Chuck
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Post by deb193redux on Sept 5, 2013 19:26:41 GMT -5
I like the color pallet of the dark pudding stone
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Post by beefjello on Sept 5, 2013 19:52:54 GMT -5
Wow Chuck that's something else!! Super nice find!
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Post by cardiobill on Sept 5, 2013 20:12:08 GMT -5
Chuck, I can't shed any light on what it is but it is really cool.
I don't know how it looks in person but the close up in the second pic is amazing.
I know puddingstone is hard to work with given the differing hardness of the individual components but I know you'll do a great job with it.
Great find- thanks for sharing
Bill
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Post by Jugglerguy on Sept 5, 2013 21:02:43 GMT -5
I've heard gowganda tillite referred to as "dark pudding stone", but I don't think that's gowganda tillite. It looks more brecciated, where gowganda is more of a conglomerate. Whatever it is, I like it! Did you only find one of those, or are they common on Drummond?
I pick up a lot of that orange speckled quartz. I tumbled a piece of it before and I decided that I wanted a whole tumbler full. I picked up a nice big one when I took Panamark on a fossil hunt a couple weeks ago. I need to get it sliced up.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Sept 5, 2013 21:11:23 GMT -5
rob, this is the first I have ever seen like it. I have a gowganda tillite in the saw now and already got a few slabs done but its kind of boring stuff. I will try to get some cabs done this weekend from some of these new beach rocks to see how workable they are.
chuck
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Post by panamark on Sept 5, 2013 21:23:24 GMT -5
Wow, that is really neat stuff. Never seen anything like it except maybe James' homemade brecciated glass. Hopefully the materials are all compatable so it will tumble. Maybe you will get to name a new material Chuck :-)
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Sept 5, 2013 21:39:08 GMT -5
mark, I thought about that stuff james makes when I was posting these pictures. most of this will be cabbed but I will tumble the saw scraps and end cuts to see how it does.
chuck
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2013 22:26:00 GMT -5
Wow, that is really neat stuff. Never seen anything like it except maybe James' homemade brecciated glass. Hopefully the materials are all compatible so it will tumble. Maybe you will get to name a new material Chuck :-) Beat me to it!
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Post by tandl on Sept 6, 2013 7:51:10 GMT -5
I do know this one . polymictic conglomerate . Nice one !
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Sept 6, 2013 10:23:42 GMT -5
Tandl- thanks that description does fit but even our common quartzite,jasper and chert Michigan pudding stones could be considered a polymictic conglomerate since they contain more than one type of material in the conglomerate. I have just never seen this type of combination before. I liked the information given on this website about conglomerates. I learned some new stuff reading it. flexiblelearning.auckland.ac.nz/rocks_minerals/rocks/conglomerate.htmlChuck
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Post by panamark on Sept 6, 2013 10:27:15 GMT -5
Geologically speaking, I wonder how those fragments can be so fresh (unrounded) and be in a conglomerate. I will have to do some research. Really interesting stuff!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 11:18:40 GMT -5
Geologically speaking, I wonder how those fragments can be so fresh (unrounded) and be in a conglomerate. I will have to do some research. Really interesting stuff! Mark, you already know the answer to that. jamesp made them and then, knowing chuck would visit, planted then on that Lake Huron beach. Sheesh, that ain't so hard. lol
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Post by tandl on Sept 6, 2013 17:46:14 GMT -5
Alp. classic pudding is a poly . looks like yours has limestone,mudstone,chert,graywacke ? Good pics but still hard to be sure. what do you think the orange stone in it is -quatrzite ?
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Post by panamark on Sept 7, 2013 9:00:14 GMT -5
Geologically speaking, I wonder how those fragments can be so fresh (unrounded) and be in a conglomerate. I will have to do some research. Really interesting stuff! Mark, you already know the answer to that. jamesp made them and then, knowing chuck would visit, planted then on that Lake Huron beach. Sheesh, that ain't so hard. lol Yeah Scott, knowing James the little bit I do, I could see him doing that and just sitting back laughing. Notice he is quiet here, LOL.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Sept 7, 2013 11:21:21 GMT -5
yeah guys that explains why I found these near that rock ..... Chuck
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Post by jamesp on Sept 7, 2013 12:40:12 GMT -5
Sneaking out to the shores of Lake Huron to salt Jamespionite on the beach. OH! Wheres my dam glasses!
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Post by jamesp on Sept 7, 2013 12:46:16 GMT -5
Geologically speaking, I wonder how those fragments can be so fresh (unrounded) and be in a conglomerate. I will have to do some research. Really interesting stuff! Mark, you already know the answer to that. jamesp made them and then, knowing chuck would visit, planted then on that Lake Huron beach. Sheesh, that ain't so hard. lol I love mass paranoia.
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