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Post by jamesp on Jun 9, 2013 21:46:07 GMT -5
The link is at the bottom.Please check this whole link out. From Indonesia.Polished coatings and beads   The story and more pics: www.indoagate.com/bamboo.html |
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Post by garock on Jun 10, 2013 7:02:54 GMT -5
Mr James, Thanks for Sharing ! Very, Very Interesting !
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Post by jamesp on Jun 10, 2013 7:23:02 GMT -5
We need to go there garock.Looks kinda steep for us flatlanders.
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Post by texaswoodie on Jun 10, 2013 7:23:53 GMT -5
I love horsetail reeds and know a place in AR that they grow wild. To see fossilized ones is amazing.
Curt
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jun 10, 2013 8:01:55 GMT -5
Around Birmingham AL fossilized horsetail up to 8 inches in diameter.They are old.They are ferns,go figure.
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Jun 17, 2013 8:17:13 GMT -5
Thanks, James! Those are really cool!
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Post by Pat on Jun 17, 2013 9:41:57 GMT -5
Oh, gees! I immediately thought of the horse!
The beads are lovely. Thanks for the link, too.
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Post by tandl on Jun 21, 2013 15:28:53 GMT -5
Those are beautiful ! They grow around here .
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jun 21, 2013 20:09:23 GMT -5
Lots of places.Rarely here in Georgia.I guess they like some lime soil.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 21, 2013 23:02:52 GMT -5
Wow! There's been more new and cool stuff showing up here lately. Totally new to me and beautiful material in this post. Great post James.Only thing we had out in California was fossilized agatized cat tails, like this stuff.....Mel   |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 21, 2013 23:30:29 GMT -5
Yep.I have cut thousands of cattails and recognize that cross section.
I wonder if they are in nice agate?
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 22, 2013 17:41:49 GMT -5
James, I used to have a pile of them in my yard that a buddy and I brought out of Lonely Butte near Mojave , CA. and all we found were just this rootbeer brown and white color. Well replaced with super hard agate though.....Mel
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Post by jamesp on Jun 22, 2013 19:45:00 GMT -5
No matter about the gem thing.Those are great replacements and are real fine fossils.
I stayed in the Mojave a couple of weeks 20 years ago.What a fine place.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 22, 2013 20:57:21 GMT -5
*L* The town of Mojave was kind of a hole last time looked. The cat tails are big too. Most the stalks are over and inch across, larger than modern species ....Mel
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Post by bhiatt on Jun 22, 2013 21:14:47 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Jun 22, 2013 21:40:12 GMT -5
That is the same stuff Brad.Indonesians call horsetail 'bamboo'.Confused me at first.Indonesia is an agate making machine.
It has a lot of bright colored agates.My coral is not as fancy but has cool bright colors.
The shops in Atlanta have a lot of Indonesian logs made into seats and end tables.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2013 0:23:27 GMT -5
That is the same stuff Brad.Indonesians call horsetail 'bamboo'.Confused me at first.Indonesia is an agate making machine. Indonesia is 1000++ volcanoes. I wonder why?!?!?!?  |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 23, 2013 8:14:17 GMT -5
It has got to be a fualt like the one on the west coast of the Americas Scott.Chile Peru Costa Rica right up to Washington state i believe.  |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 23, 2013 8:37:25 GMT -5
Mel was talking about fossilized cattails earlier in this post and a prior conversation about eating cattail hearts. Many varieties: 1. Typha angustifoli Narrow leaf Cattail 2. Typha domingensi Southern Cattail 3. Typha latifolia Broad leaf Cattail 4. Typha laxmanii Dwarf Cattail 5. Typha minima 6. Typha schuttleworthii 7. Typha ×glauca Hybrid Cattail voices.yahoo.com/florida-edible-cattail-7755597.htmlIn most area cattails are a lot of hard work for nothing.But Typha Latifolia in FL.(probably a florida subspecies) gets 12 feet tall. Growing in the spring runs/outflows in pure virgin water they get over 2 inches in diameter for the first 2 feet of stumpage down in the water devoid of acridity and sweet as sugar.White meat in the center is 1 and 1/2 inch diameter and 2-3 feet long.Massive source of common survival food for weary kayaker. Just saying that Mel's cattail fossils w/almost 2 inch diameters are common place in Florida. Cattails are highly illegal to transport/plant in Florida.And a native plant at that.It takes over more desirable wetland populations and quickly forms a monoculture. I planted thousand and thousands for water treatment.Copperhill Tennesee is probably most notorius satellite visible scar on the earth. Defoliated by acid and copper fumes.Like 80 years later and not a plant!They are mitigating w/cattails cause they do metals well. |
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