jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jul 27, 2014 9:36:26 GMT -5
Before, split the thin dimension. Window chipped off right side to determine if a leverite. Rind can be viewed from the inside of the rock, best on right half. Another w/ window chipped off. Slice up and down to right. Some polyps in this one Some kind of hole in limestone that filled w/silica. Common. Root, bore hole, water conduit, no telling Other side. Botryoidal surface.
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junglejim
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Post by junglejim on Jul 27, 2014 10:40:36 GMT -5
Very cool corals, especially like the one with polyps. I wish I had some. I had a few but the doctor took mine. Everything is cool !!
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Post by jamesp on Jul 27, 2014 10:48:29 GMT -5
Very cool corals, especially like the one with polyps. I wish I had some. I had a few but the doctor took mine. Everything is cool !! Thanks Jim. The doctor? Got me curious on that one.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 12:19:50 GMT -5
Great stuff James.
Polyps, the things that grow where the sun don't shine. Taken by a person that "CHOSE" the specialty of going into that place to find them. A special kind of spelunker. SHUDDER SHUDDER GAG SHUDDER. But if it were not for that kind of person I would probably have them the size of oranges. Jim
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Post by jamesp on Jul 27, 2014 12:30:02 GMT -5
Doctor encompassing great bravery for sure. The polyp hunter. Spelunker-too funny.
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Post by snowmom on Jul 27, 2014 15:02:15 GMT -5
oh man, no comments on the comments.... hmmm - Jamesp, your blue coral is beautiful. Specially like that 2nd one, it is pretty translucent! if you slice that I would love to see a piece backlit.
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Post by jamesp on Jul 27, 2014 16:07:25 GMT -5
oh man, no comments on the comments.... hmmm - Jamesp, your blue coral is beautiful. Specially like that 2nd one, it is pretty translucent! if you slice that I would love to see a piece backlit. The thicker it is the bluer it is. Slabed thin it is about grey. A high dome cab looks blue. That material is translucent. It is coral that is solid even when they are large. I sliced a 25 pound one. into 1.5 inch thick slabs to make tumbles out of it by striking the flat sawn surface. that way you get few fractures. Here is such a slab, not as cool of patterns though, could have gotten a 7 inch sphere though. Not striking looking enough for that much work
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Post by jamesp on Jul 27, 2014 16:18:20 GMT -5
The second one was translucent with the opaque skin on the back side. These are in a wide spot in the river where the north bank eroded away exposing these. Takes a while to get to them by motor boat.
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 27, 2014 17:53:23 GMT -5
HOLY MOLY and droolin' again!
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Post by snowmom on Jul 27, 2014 19:15:41 GMT -5
so cool! Thanks Jamesp!
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Post by thehp on Jul 28, 2014 19:58:11 GMT -5
That is some cool stuff there boss. The one with the polyps reminds me of a notebook i used to look at in high school - if you stared at it long enough your eyes would go "wonky" and you felt like you were "falling" into it .
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Post by nowyo on Jul 28, 2014 20:49:55 GMT -5
nice stuff, James.
Russ
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Post by jamesp on Jul 28, 2014 20:51:21 GMT -5
That is some cool stuff there boss. The one with the polyps reminds me of a notebook i used to look at in high school - if you stared at it long enough your eyes would go "wonky" and you felt like you were "falling" into it . Some have some psychosis producing iridescence that will send you off HP. Never know what will be inside those things.
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