dwood
off to a rocking start
Member since August 2019
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Post by dwood on Aug 24, 2019 10:16:34 GMT -5
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dwood
off to a rocking start
Member since August 2019
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Post by dwood on Aug 24, 2019 12:36:02 GMT -5
Anyone? I can’t find anything remotely close in my researching. It’s driving me bonkers! It’s from the Pacific Northwest, found in a river bank and thought it was petrified wood but after digging it out I’ve came to the conclusion it is not.
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<'))))>< Fish
Cave Dweller
Gone Fishing
Member since April 2005
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Post by <'))))>< Fish on Aug 24, 2019 14:35:13 GMT -5
i would have left it on the river bank... too damn heavy for me to move
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dwood
off to a rocking start
Member since August 2019
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Post by dwood on Aug 24, 2019 20:07:02 GMT -5
😂 it was a chore for 2 of us big dudes!
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fuss
spending too much on rocks
Member since October 2018
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Post by fuss on Aug 24, 2019 23:25:17 GMT -5
I see what looks like some chert, that's about all I can make out.
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Post by fernwood on Aug 25, 2019 3:42:35 GMT -5
I find much smaller ones like that in WI. Sometimes they have trace fossils. Looks like chert mixed with something else..
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Post by rmf on Aug 25, 2019 12:12:59 GMT -5
dwood fuss and fernwood have it correct, this is chert. This would be called, in rockhound speak, leverite (as in leave it right there). The only chert I have ever found with any redeeming qualities is Mozarkite from MO. Some refer to OH flint as chert, I will not debate that, but that would also be a exception if you believe that is chert. Well you have learned a heavy lesson. Back in the day I had a VW rabbit and lived in an apartment, I hunted TN geodes with the club. Hauled about 400# home and after cracking them they were all solid. Not having a place to put them I waited for the next rock trip to get geodes and took all that leverite back where I found it. I am much more careful these days. Experience is what you get right after you need it.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 25, 2019 12:30:57 GMT -5
dwood fuss and fernwood have it correct, this is chert. This would be called, in rockhound speak, leverite (as in leave it right there). The only chert I have ever found with any redeeming qualities is Mozarkite from MO. Some refer to OH flint as chert, I will not debate that, but that would also be a exception if you believe that is chert. Well you have learned a heavy lesson. Back in the day I had a VW rabbit and lived in an apartment, I hunted TN geodes with the club. Hauled about 400# home and after cracking them they were all solid. Not having a place to put them I waited for the next rock trip to get geodes and took all that leverite back where I found it. I am much more careful these days. Experience is what you get right after you need it. I would have said leverite, too. But, after all that work, no one wants to hear that.
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Post by greig on Aug 25, 2019 13:47:24 GMT -5
The above suggestions could be correct. However, my first thought was feldspar. I too have a garden full of big rocks that I humped out of the hinterlands. Even my rock thieving neighbour is smart enough to leave those alone.
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