gravelgrazer
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Post by gravelgrazer on May 13, 2014 4:30:47 GMT -5
I cut open this tegg and it has an air bubble in a water pocket. When I tilt the egg, the air bubble moves from side to side. Sorry about the quality of the video, I was using the camera on my cell phone. If anybody has any advice or info on Oregon teggs that are enhydro, please lemme know. Thanks!
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on May 13, 2014 5:50:29 GMT -5
Make your video 'public' gravel grazer. I think it was checked as private. I want to see your enhydro. I find them in S. GA and N, FL. in the form of pseudomorphed silicified coral heads.
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Post by snowmom on May 14, 2014 3:41:09 GMT -5
sad I couldn't see it, it sounds fascinating. please try again!
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gravelgrazer
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Post by gravelgrazer on May 14, 2014 5:43:01 GMT -5
ok, i'll try to change the settings thanks for the heads up
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Tommy
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Post by Tommy on May 14, 2014 7:20:29 GMT -5
That's amazing! I had never heard of this until you posted - thanks!
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Post by jakesrocks on May 14, 2014 10:08:01 GMT -5
Very nice find and lucky cut. Enhydro's really aren't that rare, but many are ruined in the cutting process by cutting right through the pocket containing the water.
Somewhere in all of my boxes of rocks I have an enhydro quartz crystal. Almost impossible to get a pic of. The water / air bubble is so tiny that it can only be seen in detail under a loupe.
A while back, (3 or 4 years ago), a friend cut a T-egg and found a pocket containing ancient mud, and what appeared to be a couple of preserved ancient grubs. He sent it to the South Dakota School of Mines to study. Haven't heard back from him on what the school determined.
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tkvancil
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Post by tkvancil on May 14, 2014 10:42:22 GMT -5
Don't have any info but that's freakin' cool !!!
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SJPatrick
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Post by SJPatrick on May 14, 2014 10:47:03 GMT -5
That's too cool. I've heard of them. But never in a thunderegg. It seems like it would take a really lucky cut to keep them from being destroyed and still remain visible. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2014 11:13:06 GMT -5
When I saw enhydra I expected this: I read it wrong and now I learned enhydrO is a rock with water inside. Nice!
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gravelgrazer
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Post by gravelgrazer on May 14, 2014 13:24:56 GMT -5
Thanks! Ya I used my 12" lortone to cut it. The vice clamps from the top so it was a little tricky getting it secured on the egg, so I cut it a little off center. I tripped out when I saw something move inside, super exciting!
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Post by kap on May 14, 2014 14:41:27 GMT -5
Wow! That is awesome! I've found some crystals with them but never seen a T-egg!
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Post by snowmom on May 14, 2014 16:32:39 GMT -5
totally amazing. I had never heard of such a thing!
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gemfeller
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Post by gemfeller on May 14, 2014 18:44:11 GMT -5
I used to see a lot of agate nodule enhydros from Brazil. I have a couple but the water must have leaked out through tiny cracks over time -- no mo enhyros! The most unusual enhydro I've seen was displayed by the people at New Era Gems -- a very large Tanzanite crystal with a beautiful moving bubble inside. There's a type of quartz crystal enhydro that has liquid petroleum bubbles.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on May 15, 2014 9:36:49 GMT -5
Roy is pretty good on info with thundereggs,so is Jack......Jason is very good too....
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