Post by nowyo on Jun 6, 2017 16:33:01 GMT -5
Well, not really. About all the rock stuff I've been doing lately is sheetrock and it just isn't that much fun. Took a break from filling boxes with stuff and took a couple pictures of this hunk of rock.
Leopard rock, it's a porphyritic diabase with plagioclase phenocrysts. hmm, may have accidentally spelled some of that correctly. Not rare stuff worldwide, but this is our "local" variety from the Beartooth Mountains in Wyoming. It's been sitting on the patio for several years and I thought I'd take a picture and post it just because I think it's kind of neat. Doubt it has any lapidary value.
This stuff formed as mafic dikes. Must have been deep and cooled slowly for crystals to grow that large.
Thanks for looking.
Russ
Leopard rock, it's a porphyritic diabase with plagioclase phenocrysts. hmm, may have accidentally spelled some of that correctly. Not rare stuff worldwide, but this is our "local" variety from the Beartooth Mountains in Wyoming. It's been sitting on the patio for several years and I thought I'd take a picture and post it just because I think it's kind of neat. Doubt it has any lapidary value.
This stuff formed as mafic dikes. Must have been deep and cooled slowly for crystals to grow that large.
Thanks for looking.
Russ
