gem97845
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Post by gem97845 on Feb 9, 2010 17:41:50 GMT -5
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Post by Toad on Feb 10, 2010 8:14:28 GMT -5
The first one almost looks like agatized fossils of tube worms - but I'm probably wrong. All of them are great, but can't help on the IDs. None look overly familiar to me.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 10, 2010 9:28:11 GMT -5
Yeah, That first one does look a lot like wood that has been tunneled by wood boring beetles. Thing about that particular area of Texas is you can flat find almost anything in the quartz gem group. Unless it's a specific known type like red plume, black plume, flower garden etc, most would just be categorized as jasper-agate as there are a multitude of mixed of translucent agate and opaque jasper varieties in that region. Very pretty finds though. Stillwell is on my short list of places to hit real soon......Mel
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gem97845
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Post by gem97845 on Feb 10, 2010 12:07:52 GMT -5
Thanks guys for the help, it is much appreciated. Mel, your absolutely correct about the wide variety of material in that area. It was great hunting, because you just didn't know what you would fine. Can't wait to get home and slab some of those pieces. Much of what we found was tumbler size so there should be some great surprises.
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