habbie
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Post by habbie on Apr 16, 2011 13:40:00 GMT -5
I may have posted this on the wrong page awhile ago but will see if this is the one I need to be in LOL. I have a friend who said she has some pop rocks I didn't know what they were so looked them up. I guess it is some sort of plant or creature only found in certain areas of U.S. She is from the Abilene area, don't have a clues as to what they are worth, does anybody know?
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nates
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Post by nates on Apr 16, 2011 14:31:07 GMT -5
Pop rocks are candy, kinda like nerds but they pop and fizz in your mouth. Never heard of anything else with that name.
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juzwuz
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Post by juzwuz on Apr 16, 2011 16:43:54 GMT -5
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 18, 2011 9:27:05 GMT -5
Naw. Pop rocks are crinoid stem sections . They have water inside so when you throw them into a fire they pop apart with a sound like pop corn. Very popular thing to do here in Texas with folks who give them no value as fossils....Mel
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habbie
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Post by habbie on Apr 19, 2011 8:51:35 GMT -5
that is what she told me sabre, I live east of her and west of FTW we don't have them here.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 19, 2011 9:11:00 GMT -5
Yeah habbie, crinoid fossils are in the older rocks. I hunt crinoids up around San Saba and Cherokee. I have a good friend who is a crinoid collector and the whole fossils or even the heads can be quite valuable if in good condition. The stem segments of the "sea Lily" a starfish relative-echinoderm are very abundant is some areas, so much so that the Indians used them as beads, but hold only curiosity value for the fossil collector...Mel
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Apr 26, 2011 12:50:54 GMT -5
Yea we get them here too- not much value- but an interesting fossil non the less- sometimes we even get some that are pyritized!
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