bsky4463
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Post by bsky4463 on Mar 14, 2014 14:06:17 GMT -5
On our annual spring hiatus from the cold winter to the cold coast, actually it been pretty mild thus far on the OR north coast. Multiple beach walks each day, ending up with too many rocks.... Still a lot of sand due to the relatively tame winter storms the past few years, so the agate hunting is spotty. Here's a few from yesterday: Nature tumbled pet wood:  agates for the tumbler when we get home:  not sure if agate or zolite in basalt on this one, but cool circular forms in the lower layer (any help on ID welcome):  way cool agate in basalt:  at first I thought petrified sponge, but with a little lookingon the interweb thinking scoria or pumice - looks more like scoria but lighter like pumice....ideas?  |
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 14, 2014 22:18:12 GMT -5
Gotta love beach hounding....Was in Depoe Bay last week end when it was storming...No hounding though...Thumbs down
Did find some rocks in the varity Mom and Pop stores though...
PS: Great finds...Thumbs up
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Post by roy on Mar 14, 2014 22:40:13 GMT -5
ya me too headed to tillimook tomorrow might have to go looking at some spots i know
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 15, 2014 13:00:35 GMT -5
That last one is most likely the skeletal remains of a modern tube worm colony. Many tube worms are colonial and make stoney tubes of calcium which persist in beach gravels. There are of course fossil ones too but the modern ones look more like what you've pictured and are fairly light weight compared to fossil ones.....Mel
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bsky4463
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Post by bsky4463 on Mar 16, 2014 12:32:38 GMT -5
Sabre52 you nailed it, once again. I googled the interweb and tube worm colony is a perfect match. Interesting the identification of modern versus old colonies. Many thanks. Fossilman the beaches are still pretty heavily sanded. Need some good northerly crankier storms to expose some rock but the season is winding down...maybe next year. cheers
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Post by iant on Mar 17, 2014 2:46:16 GMT -5
Well done - Great finds!
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 17, 2014 9:20:50 GMT -5
Sabre52 you nailed it, once again. I googled the interweb and tube worm colony is a perfect match. Interesting the identification of modern versus old colonies. Many thanks. Fossilman the beaches are still pretty heavily sanded. Need some good northerly crankier storms to expose some rock but the season is winding down...maybe next year. cheers I here that next year the gravels will be showing again! I was here the first go around three years ago,I won't drag my butt this time,I'll be hounding those beaches a lot this go around...LOL Your last pic,I call it a worm rock...LOL PS: for some odd reason,further south on the beaches,they are finding huge agates,some up to 100 pounds!!!!!!! Down by Newport and further south....Seen the photos.. |
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Post by bsky4463 on Mar 17, 2014 11:46:17 GMT -5
Fossilman Yeah I heard about some big'ns down south. Would be sweet to find some beach agates big enough to cut. Seen photos too but not personally found any yet. We were down in Yachats last weekend, and stopped at a lot of the usual beaches. Nada. Sand, Sand, Sand. Went up a few creeks and found a few. Highlight of the trip was looping out to Cape Argo. Walked an isolated cove looking for concretions. Came up short on the concretions but had a close encounter with an elephant seal. Never seen one of them up in OR before. We have a not so great photo of it, will try to post later. Photo added.... Hoping for prediction of less sand next year to come true. Cheers 
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 18, 2014 9:55:34 GMT -5
From the sounds of it,it will be "El nino" coming back in next year,should be with us for a few years....It usually washes the sand out to sea...
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