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Post by frane on Sept 16, 2008 19:10:03 GMT -5
I ordered a pound of slabs and most I could tell what they were, although several had broken a bit in shipping. This is one that I really can't tell what it is. It did break apart since it was an outside slab. I am guessing it is some type of pet wood but I can't find anything that looks like it. Do any of you have an idea about this? These next few I think are moss agate. Dry Wet Thank you for looking Fran
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Post by stonesthatrock on Sept 16, 2008 21:29:13 GMT -5
can i ask where you bought them from?
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Post by stonesthatrock on Sept 16, 2008 21:30:36 GMT -5
oops i forgot to say the moss is pretty. I would also like to know what the first one is, it does look very soft.
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Post by SteveHolmes on Sept 16, 2008 22:00:03 GMT -5
Can't help you out...but I don't think the 1st one is wood. Steve
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Post by sitnwrap on Sept 16, 2008 22:44:13 GMT -5
The second one looks very much like Horse Canyon Agate. It might also be Algea Agate, but looks more like Horse Canyon. I'm not an expert and just going on what I have seen of other rocks.
Have no Idea about the first one but it is really cool.
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Post by frane on Sept 17, 2008 5:12:24 GMT -5
I think I got this from Lou's rock shop on line. One pound for around $8. I thought it was a pretty good deal to get started on some stuff other than what I have trimmed down to use myself.
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Post by frane on Sept 17, 2008 5:14:34 GMT -5
Oh, I forgot to say it doesn't feel too soft. I can't scratch it with a knife and it has a clinking sound when it bumps together. almost like a tile sound and it has a lot of little holes in some of the round areas.
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Post by texaswoodie on Sept 17, 2008 9:48:35 GMT -5
I don't think it's wood. At least not any I've seen. It is very interesting though.
Curt
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Post by lynskyn1970 on Sept 17, 2008 19:18:06 GMT -5
maybe the top one is some type of petrified root? ? who knows i also have never seen anything like it.... the green is really pretty.....
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Post by akansan on Sept 17, 2008 19:27:45 GMT -5
I'm going to take a guess on that first one as some kind of rhyolite, just based on other rhyolitic stones (rainforest jasper, leopardskin jasper, etc.). Is the center of those spots softer than the outer sections? (Can you scratch the center parts with the outer parts?)
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Post by adrian65 on Sept 18, 2008 0:42:48 GMT -5
I think the same as the other ones, no wood. And the darker areas seem softer indeed. I see some nice dendritic patterns at the border lines between beige and brown.
Adrian
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Post by cina on Sept 18, 2008 9:29:58 GMT -5
I have seen rainforest jasper that looks like that only with more color. But I have never seen any just like that Steph
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Sept 18, 2008 11:14:51 GMT -5
Stromatolite and matrix?
Just guessing.
Chuck
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Post by stonesthatrock on Sept 18, 2008 11:23:38 GMT -5
i have a lesser grade of rainforest in my flickr, it doesn't look like that. I have some different stuff in there i can id but nothing that looks like that.
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Post by nansaidh on Sept 18, 2008 11:49:33 GMT -5
I don't know much about geology but my first thought on the RIQ (rock in question) at the top was bone - now I know dino bone doesn't look like that but that's what first came to mind. Been trying to reason out what might have decayed and formed with that sort of pattern but "it ain't werkin" - my brain that is. Coral doesn't fit that I can figure.
C'mon you rock geniuses - I'm curious enough to bookmark this thread! lol
Nancy
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Post by desertdweller on Sept 18, 2008 14:37:13 GMT -5
The second slabs you have posted look like they have some chrysocolla impregnated in chalcedony, not quite gem silica but close. The green is malachite maybe? The slab in the last picture looks like it also has quartz around the outside edges. The slabs in the first pictures look kinda like a piece of petrified caliche? SP? Mel? Is that possible?
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Post by sandsman1 on Sept 19, 2008 19:28:24 GMT -5
Nancy i was just checkin out your pens man there nice how the heck do you drill the inside out without cracking them -- do you do them on a lathe to shape them
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Post by frane on Sept 20, 2008 16:42:35 GMT -5
Yes, if I scrape real hard with a knife, I can get it to scratch in the dark areas, or at least some of them. Most of the lighter color seems to be harder. Fran
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Post by frane on Sept 22, 2008 16:53:54 GMT -5
Hey folks,
I searched my receipts and found I ordered from Dad's rock shop, not Lou's. I sent them an email with picture and they answered today and said if they remember correctly, it is a variety of rain forest Jasper so Arkansan, you are right. I had no idea about it at all. Thank you for your help in this, it really was quite puzzling. Fran
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