huskeric
spending too much on rocks
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Post by huskeric on Jul 1, 2016 10:44:44 GMT -5
I have been re-doing my landscaping and as a result, finding lots of rocks that have been buried for 9 years. I pulled this one out the other night, and I thought petrified wood, but then with the larger pores that are in there, I wondered if that might be fossilized bone. It looks to *me* like the outside is the harder bone and that the inside with the larger pores would be the marrow. This is from a guy who knows squat about fossils, so it might just be a green rock. =) Thanks for looking!
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Post by Peruano on Jul 2, 2016 17:09:40 GMT -5
I'm thinking not.
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huskeric
spending too much on rocks
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Post by huskeric on Jul 6, 2016 9:13:28 GMT -5
Peruano, thank you for the reply. I figured I was grasping a bit, but just wanted to make sure before I just threw the missing piece of a museum's Tyrannosaurus Rex into my tumbler ;-). I'm not so sure it would polish well in a tumbler with all of the pores in there, anyway. I'm still learning, forgive my ignorance. Do you have any thoughts on if it might even be pet wood, orrrr... just a rock? Give it to me straight, I can handle it, doc.
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Post by Peruano on Jul 6, 2016 9:52:12 GMT -5
Its a pretty tough call on the basis of the photos, but I'd not bet on wood either. Mind you it does look familiar, but I can't tell you what it is at this distance. Where are you located? What kinds of rocks are you dealing with?
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huskeric
spending too much on rocks
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Post by huskeric on Jul 6, 2016 11:52:47 GMT -5
I live in Omaha, NE, and this would have come from a load of river rock from a local company.
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