jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 14, 2016 10:42:19 GMT -5
first thing i thought was sponge . You do find marine fossils there too, right ? i have quite a few sponges and they look like this. Occasional marine stuff tandl. Large amounts of wood and terrestrials of many strange textures. |
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Post by tandl on Dec 14, 2016 11:28:34 GMT -5
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Post by tandl on Dec 14, 2016 11:36:53 GMT -5
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Post by captbob on Dec 14, 2016 11:40:07 GMT -5
Extremely cool tandl . Please pardon my ignorance, but how do you know they are/were sponges? |
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Post by tandl on Dec 14, 2016 12:40:41 GMT -5
Extremely cool tandl . Please pardon my ignorance, but how do you know they are/were sponges? Tough question-long story. easy answer -experience then research . Part of the story - My family had property with woods and river . We would hunt game and mushrooms there , no rock hunting though . Later when i was sixteen (1982) i would go there by myself cause i had a licence and my own vehicle . i noticed the rocks and got interested in what i was finding . No one i knew rock hunted . i would do this for fun and relaxation, go out there and get away from it all, the world . i did not know that people hunted rocks till i got on the internet and came across them on ebay! this was 2002 ! |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 14, 2016 17:33:42 GMT -5
I like your sponges tandl. Colors are showy. They all have similar structures. I guess the structure is the identifying factor. Looks like it might be a challenge to read the skin. Maybe their color gives them away. Agatized living things take agate to another level. Never get tired of collecting coral in the rivers cutting thru the old ocean bottom down this way. |
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Post by tandl on Dec 14, 2016 18:10:02 GMT -5
Most all the sponges i have found by the skin , able to see some structure on the outside. color is not how i do it. there are many colors and many are pretty much colorless . these i posted are layered sponges-actinostroma. there are the porifera sponges too. will get pics of some on here . they will have divots ,indentations on the surface and spots ,oval structures inside . oyeah the color of the skin is often brown from iron staining from water, in my area.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 14, 2016 18:37:31 GMT -5
Put em up tandl. Porifera(trying to remember) |
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mikeinsjc
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Post by mikeinsjc on Dec 26, 2016 19:36:52 GMT -5
What's a Rio?
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 26, 2016 20:45:00 GMT -5
mike; Rio refers to the Rio Grande River in south Texas. Home to many forms of water worn agate, jasper and pet wood. Probably one of the largest quartz gem rich area of the country...Mel
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 26, 2016 21:13:02 GMT -5
I thought captbob already answered this question. |
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