Rockhounding in Adams County, Mississippi

Mississippi has some cool rocks!

Welcome to the forum from Southern California.

I would have thought the only thing you could find in Mississippi is mud if it wasn't for posts like this.

I have a couple of similar rocks. I've heard them called Crowley Ridge agates.
Is that what yours is?
Lynn

Actually, the agates here are easy to find in any stream outside of town, especially in the Homochitto River sub basin. The bars and bottom are composed primarily of coarse sand and gravel from 1 inch to baked potato sized. The river is no more than a foot deep in places and it makes for a nice summer day to wade it. Attached is an aerial view of the huge sand bars, some nearly a mile long. In addition to the gravel deposits, the loess bluff region near the Mississippi River contains some Pleistocene fossils. Early scientists were finding mammoth bones along St. Catherine's Creek as early as the 1830s. They found so many that they named is Mammoth Ravine. Today, rock hunters are still finding teeth in the stream.

Cool. I like random rock hounding.

Found a broken arrowhead my first trip to the river.

msuwabbit does this agate have a particular name?

Caption for Figure 8 . . .

Samantha Williams is looking at a white sandstone boulder in the pre-loess gravel deposits at the Gibb's gravel pit in western Hinds County, where the base of the gravel deposit is at 330 feet above sea level. The boulder probably floated down the ancient Mississippi River in a block of ice, a process called "ice rafting."

Cool . . . first time I’ve heard/seen that described.

Good god, I need to get out. Thanks for sharing. Vicarious hounding will have to do for now.