einholt
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Post by einholt on Sept 20, 2019 9:57:18 GMT -5
I pulled a handful of oddly shaped rocks out of the Meramec River at a park my son likes to play at. On a whim, I decided to slice one to see what it looked like inside. I think it's some sort of agate.  I've pulled a bit of mozarkite out of the back yard and what someone kindly identified for me as Union Road Agate. I'll post more as I come across them. My son pulled a (two year old) fist sized quartz cluster out of the gravel a neighbor dumped recently. |
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einholt
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Post by einholt on Sept 20, 2019 10:07:03 GMT -5
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Post by einholt on Sept 22, 2019 14:01:53 GMT -5
 Same area, found this morning. No idea what it is. I'd guess a chert breccia of some sort. |
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Post by fernwood on Sept 26, 2019 5:58:22 GMT -5
Nice finds. Post the quartz your son found.
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einholt
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Post by einholt on Sept 26, 2019 8:27:11 GMT -5
 The more I look at it, the more I think it's calcite, but it barely noticed being scratched with a blade. |
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einholt
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Post by einholt on Sept 26, 2019 8:32:38 GMT -5
  A couple of pieces we hauled off this week. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2019 13:41:39 GMT -5
The more I look at it, the more I think it's calcite, but it barely noticed being scratched with a blade. Do you have access to an ultraviolet light source? That's another piece of evidence that can narrow things down. Things like calcite and fluorite will really glow under UV. Your area has both some interesting native rocks, plus things pushed down your way by glaciers and streams. |
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Post by mjflinty on Sept 26, 2019 18:04:20 GMT -5
The one with shell fossils is Burlington Chert, your local chert, used widely by natives to make stone tools.
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Post by einholt on Sept 26, 2019 18:04:26 GMT -5
I'll pick up a uv light, shouldn't cost much. Here's a couple we found today, a fossil and what looks like calcite in a much harder matrix.   |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2019 18:07:50 GMT -5
That piece that looks like a spring embeded is likely a crinoid stem. Nice.
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einholt
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Post by einholt on Sept 26, 2019 18:10:01 GMT -5
Pretty sure it's a crinoid. Missouri's state fossil, we find enough of them in the neighbor's gravel drive.
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Post by einholt on Sept 29, 2019 20:25:55 GMT -5
 I posted this one on the identification help page. I actually tripped over it today in my backyard while moving a really heavy roto rooter. I really wonder if the builders built up the property back in the late 1950s, using whatever fill was available at the time. |
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Post by einholt on Nov 24, 2019 20:52:08 GMT -5
 Another find off a boat ramp on the Meramec River. Now that the water level is going down, I'm able to start looking again. Along with this, which I think is calcite, I found a couple river agates that might look alright tumbled and some small pieces of fossilized coral. |
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Post by RocksInNJ on Nov 24, 2019 23:17:06 GMT -5
You go son! Some really interesting finds. What do you plan on doing with them?
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einholt
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Post by einholt on Nov 25, 2019 12:25:58 GMT -5
Most of them get cleaned up and put on my son's shelves. Some of it gets tumbled, some of it I'll eventually try to cab if it's any good.
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Post by einholt on Feb 16, 2020 13:27:41 GMT -5
Been a bit since we got to walk around the river, it's been flooded out recently. But today we found what I think is iron slag and a neat bit of quartz.   Not sure what to do with the slag. |
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Post by captbob on Feb 16, 2020 15:09:25 GMT -5
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einholt
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Post by einholt on Feb 16, 2020 17:18:46 GMT -5
Well, I know where I'm going my next day off.
Funny, I worked near the center of that area for a while. There's a road cut right at the Lemay Ferry exit on 255 that might show some promise.
I wonder if the Weber Quarry would let me look through their tailings piles? It's just a couple miles from there, I imagine I'd find something.
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einholt
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Post by einholt on Feb 16, 2020 17:26:53 GMT -5
 I'm thinking this is an agate, just a guess from all the banding on it. Trying to decide if I'll try and throw it in the tumbler or attempt to slab it. |
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