jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 12, 2015 22:38:08 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jan 13, 2015 5:11:13 GMT -5
PS That black rock turned some fresh saw oil BLACK.lol. No problem, it will settle. that'd be your carbon right there (buckyball fullerenes!) |
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Post by snowmom on Jan 13, 2015 5:16:14 GMT -5
Ann, this is absolutely awesome, to get some professional counsel. I greatly appreciate the input, the more information we can gather the better! Thanks for taking the time and the trouble to do this! So much help from all of you, I can't tell everybody how grateful I am. Loving the learning. Thank you!
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Post by jamesp on Jan 13, 2015 6:28:01 GMT -5
Ann, this is absolutely awesome, to get some professional counsel. I greatly appreciate the input, the more information we can gather the better! Thanks for taking the time and the trouble to do this! So much help from all of you, I can't tell everybody how grateful I am. Loving the learning. Thank you! The geologists paralleled most of the forum discussion and your research snowmom. Yea! Were smart "not sedimentary" and not "volcanic"(igneous petrologist) Geologic events that have a high probability of occurring like obvious lava flows, earth quakes, ancient ocean beds that have tilted from tectonic shifting, glacier plow marks, craters...all those are attention getters. There is little guessing, the geology pretty much proves what happened. I walked all over the Wetumpka Impact site. It is obvious from satellite images, but shocked quartz was really the only proof geologically. Other than river pebbles covering the hill tops. Shocked quartz is more of a lab test. At least these rocks can be collected and give obvious physical evidence to the collector. The top of the list in being awe inspiring is the impact sites |
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Post by snowmom on Jan 13, 2015 6:37:28 GMT -5
Ann, this is absolutely awesome, to get some professional counsel. I greatly appreciate the input, the more information we can gather the better! Thanks for taking the time and the trouble to do this! So much help from all of you, I can't tell everybody how grateful I am. Loving the learning. Thank you! The geologists paralleled most of the forum discussion and your research snowmom. Yea! Were smart RTH and its members ROCK! |
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Post by fantastic5 on Jan 13, 2015 8:40:15 GMT -5
fantastic5 We need a good geologist to work on snowmom's discovery's. Do you think Prof. Wayne is friendly enough to join in our discovery? We simply must supply Ray some samples. I can cut him a slice, or get trimmings from Tommy or Deb can really do it right! I'll help with postage if that helps Deb. Wayne is the super friendy sort. I have collected with him on several occasions and he is a wealth of information. I told him that I was hoping to make a Michigan trip next summer and would bring him a piece if I was able to find any. He was excited at the chance of having a piece. We may 'bribe' him into weighing in further with a sample. |
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Post by broseph82 on Jan 13, 2015 14:26:05 GMT -5
"bet those red breccias glow under that clear water" yep, they practically shout, red is so rare here. (compared to the gazillions of pieces of limestone and shale on the beach) We were going to head up North for New Years week to hound off the lake, but it said it was going to snow so we didnt go thru with it. |
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Post by snowmom on Jan 13, 2015 16:51:22 GMT -5
fantastic5 We need a good geologist to work on snowmom's discovery's. Do you think Prof. Wayne is friendly enough to join in our discovery? We simply must supply Ray some samples. I can cut him a slice, or get trimmings from Tommy or Deb can really do it right! I'll help with postage if that helps Deb. Wayne is the super friendy sort. I have collected with him on several occasions and he is a wealth of information. I told him that I was hoping to make a Michigan trip next summer and would bring him a piece if I was able to find any. He was excited at the chance of having a piece. We may 'bribe' him into weighing in further with a sample. sounds like a plan, I'll get a box of tempting goodies together  |
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Post by jamesp on Jan 14, 2015 14:27:06 GMT -5
snowmom , fantastic5-Betcha $4 this is nickel. Lots of metal in black impactite, far left and right and center, this shot dry:  closer up up of center piece, wet:  Sawed a 2mm slab, very little light passes when backlit. Native nickel: 
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Post by snowmom on Jan 14, 2015 14:36:55 GMT -5
whoa, cool! what do you think it is? Looks sorta "gold" colored... copper and silver, iron, platinum, and of course nickel-iron which would have been part of the original comet, are all found in the area where the impact took place. Gold would be unusual. There is lots of pyrite here, too. I wouldn't bet against you....
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Post by snowmom on Jan 14, 2015 14:48:20 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Jan 14, 2015 14:50:30 GMT -5
more hmmm, at the very edge of those green spots, in the melt halo, is there a little thin crust of metallic looking "shell" to some of those pieces ? Not sure of what I'm seeing in the photo...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 15:06:42 GMT -5
I'll bet you that $4.00 it isn't a penny past three cents.
Okay, I will crawl out of here now and do something so I have more to post than drivel.
Jim
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Post by snowmom on Jan 14, 2015 15:15:41 GMT -5
(drive by sniper)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 15:20:08 GMT -5
hahahahahahahahaha THAT is a good one. Jeeze you made my day. I can't stop laughing with that picture in my mind.
Jim
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Post by washingtonrocks on Jan 14, 2015 18:13:30 GMT -5
jamesp, snowmom, Wow, whatever the individual components of those stones are, they sure make for a dynamic look! There's a Diabase Gabbro in my neck of the woods that contain grains of sea-green Feldspar that have been altered and have a similar white halo as yours... I could get lost looking at your rocks!
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Post by jamesp on Jan 14, 2015 18:30:10 GMT -5
snowmom-holding this thin slab at an angle in the desk light clearly shows that bronze colored metal. Like hematite reflects, only bronze instead of grey. No doubt it is metallic, and many specs of it, the largest being in the close photo at 4 mm across. None of the halos have metal, looks like it in photo, but not. This link has a few macros of very similar Onaping breccia. The meteorite folks really get in to the breccias too. Thin slices for ability to use polarized light. checkout the prices they get on those autoclaved slides, we in wrong biz www.meteorlab.com/METEORLAB2001dev/offering21o9a.htm
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Post by snowmom on Jan 14, 2015 18:53:48 GMT -5
washingtonrocks, I have some pieces of granite that have the black, blue, and pink. They're attracted to a magnet. Is your diabase gabbro attracted to a magnet as well? Got pictures? Now I've got to go look that up. |
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Post by snowmom on Jan 14, 2015 18:55:20 GMT -5
JamesP, wow. not only do they appear to be profitable, they are beautiful! yep, missed our callings!
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Post by jamesp on Jan 14, 2015 19:03:32 GMT -5
JamesP, wow. not only do they appear to be profitable, they are beautiful! yep, missed our callings! I would suppose they are profitable because most folks can't afford meteorite slabs, these impactites hit home pretty darn well in the interest dept. It's like looking at the shrapnel of an explosion, except it was caused by a very rare astronomical event. It appeals to a different crowd too. |
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