bigfrickinrock
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Post by bigfrickinrock on Dec 16, 2020 9:02:43 GMT -5
I have been picking up rocks around where I live for the last year. Petoskies, pudding stone, coral, everything I would find at lake Huron. I thought it odd since I live 50 Mile from the lake. So I find 2 rocks last week that got me researching where I live and come to find out I live on one of the kames of stoney creek metro park. A glacial deposit in my back yard. Now back to the 2 rocks that started my research into agates of SE Michigan. I hope I am right and that they are Oolitic agates. I hope so because that would be to cool!!! Excuse the polish job on the one I cut. I rushed it.     Thanks for looking!! BFR |
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Post by NDK on Dec 17, 2020 11:20:23 GMT -5
bigfrickinrock I'm no expert, but IDK if I'd say that's oolitic. Although you have a few orbs there it looks more of a moss agate to me, and a mighty fine one considering the location. I've gotten similar from tandl which was found in east central illinois. Glacial till will hold many surprises, they're just sometimes tough to ferret out from the plain stuff.
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bigfrickinrock
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Post by bigfrickinrock on Dec 17, 2020 13:12:28 GMT -5
bigfrickinrock I'm no expert, but IDK if I'd say that's oolitic. Although you have a few orbs there it looks more of a moss agate to me, and a mighty fine one considering the location. I've gotten similar from tandl which was found in east central illinois. Glacial till will hold many surprises, they're just sometimes tough to ferret out from the plain stuff. If that is true, I would still be happy with them. And I almost didn't see the first one. It looked like a dirty piece of broken concrete. After that I was checking for dirty concrete and found the 2nd one. I would be looking for more, but that nasty white ground cover (snow) has shown up. BFR |
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Post by fernwood on Dec 17, 2020 14:33:58 GMT -5
They might be fossil coral, too.
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Post by fuss on Dec 17, 2020 17:30:26 GMT -5
I dont see Oolites or agate in these. More likely Chalcedony/Chert with some nice botroiydal surface feature. Fernwood may be right in that it is a fossil pseudomorph of some sort maybe a stromatolite?
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Post by victor1941 on Dec 17, 2020 18:04:16 GMT -5
T think coral is a good guess based on the center section in picture # 2.
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Post by jasoninsd on Dec 17, 2020 19:58:45 GMT -5
Whatever they turn out to be, they're freakin' cool!  Nice to know you're at a nice hub of a glacial deposit! I bet you're going to find some really amazing things as time goes on!!! |
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Post by fernwood on Dec 18, 2020 5:12:16 GMT -5
Some of the glacial coral I find is loaded with oolites. Here is a close up section of one piece that shows them well. Is there anything like this in your finds?  |
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Post by bigfrickinrock on Dec 18, 2020 10:35:13 GMT -5
Thanks everyone! I now have more to research.
BFR
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Post by bigfrickinrock on Dec 18, 2020 10:39:08 GMT -5
Some of the glacial coral I find is loaded with oolites. Here is a close up section of one piece that shows them well. Is there anything like this in your finds? I will have to get a closer look wet and see what shows up. I also want to get a better polish on them so I can see better. Thanks for the close up picture. That is the first pic that I can see the oolites! BFR |
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Post by stephan on Dec 18, 2020 13:31:03 GMT -5
They might be fossil coral, too. Based on pictures 3 and 4, that's what i was thinking, too. |
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Post by holajonathan on Dec 18, 2020 19:02:58 GMT -5
I have been picking up rocks around where I live for the last year. Petoskies, pudding stone, coral, everything I would find at lake Huron. I thought it odd since I live 50 Mile from the lake. So I find 2 rocks last week that got me researching where I live and come to find out I live on one of the kames of stoney creek metro park. A glacial deposit in my back yard. Now back to the 2 rocks that started my research into agates of SE Michigan. I hope I am right and that they are Oolitic agates. I hope so because that would be to cool!!! Excuse the polish job on the one I cut. I rushed it. Thanks for looking!! BFR I live in SE Michigan and have found some rocks that are similar -- similar exterior, same color scheme, and some sort of agate-like microcrystalline interior. Mine are not as nice as yours, but I have nevertheless become obsessed with finding more. The ones I have came from a mine near Brighton, MI where they found deep deposit of glacial till. It is sold as landscaping rock at my local landscape supply store, so for $48 dollars I get 2000 pounds of 1-2" glacial till rocks. Most are uninteresting but I have found 4 or 5 rocks that appear to be of similar origins as the one you show here. I have also found lots of banded chert, jasper, quartz, and a good many interesting but unidentifiable (to me) rocks. I will respond to this post when I get a chance with photos of the rocks from SE Michigan that I think may have a common origin. Where in SE Michigan did you find the rock? |
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Post by holajonathan on Dec 18, 2020 19:09:54 GMT -5
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Post by holajonathan on Dec 18, 2020 19:14:17 GMT -5
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bigfrickinrock
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Post by bigfrickinrock on Dec 21, 2020 10:33:49 GMT -5
They might be fossil coral, too. Based on pictures 3 and 4, that's what i was thinking, too. I would not have a problem with that. I have a couple of nice agitized Coral pieces. BFR |
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Post by bigfrickinrock on Dec 21, 2020 11:02:10 GMT -5
Some of the glacial coral I find is loaded with oolites. Here is a close up section of one piece that shows them well. Is there anything like this in your finds? I did not see anything that looked like the oolites in your picture on either rock. How small are those? BFR |
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Post by bigfrickinrock on Dec 21, 2020 11:05:34 GMT -5
I did see both of those sites when I started researching these rocks. That is where I got the idea that they might be Oolite agates. Love the banding on the one at mwminerals. Is that yours? BFR |
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Post by fernwood on Dec 21, 2020 18:14:49 GMT -5
Some of the glacial coral I find is loaded with oolites. Here is a close up section of one piece that shows them well. Is there anything like this in your finds? I did not see anything that looked like the oolites in your picture on either rock. How small are those? BFR About 1/8 - 1/16 inch. |
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Post by bigfrickinrock on Dec 23, 2020 9:22:20 GMT -5
I did not see anything that looked like the oolites in your picture on either rock. How small are those? BFR About 1/8 - 1/16 inch. I was thinking you magnified that to see the oolites. I would be able to see them at a 1/16-1/8. So no oolites!! BFR |
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Post by drocknut on Dec 23, 2020 10:15:39 GMT -5
Cool finds
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