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Hello I'm new to the group and need some help with revealing what I have been researching for the past 5 years. It would be nice if I could get someone to come and see what I have and guide me in this process of making it known to the geology world. I live in Virginia on the North end of Rockbridge county. The elevation here is right around 1800ft. The closest stream to me is a mile away and flows west to east. My property is a sediment bed from when water flowed east to west over a waterfall. In this sediment bed I have found something new. Please help.
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I am selling my dad's estate and came across these. He had purchased for me as I collect rocks and seashells. I want to sell them to defray burial expenses but dont feel comfortable doing so without knowing whether these are "real." Anyone willing to advise me as to authenticity? Value? Here are 3 pieces. They are approx 5" wide each. The first appears to be a clam shell. The next two appear to be sediments with shells or shell impressions.Locations unknown. Any help much appreciated! TY
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Am I the only one who loves the scent of the sediment in the Coon Creek formation?
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Found near a dry leg of the Rio Grande in Las Cruces NM. To my untrained eye it looks like possible bone?
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Before I get stoned to death for posting this here (lame pun intended)…let me just say that I honestly have no clue what I’m looking at here but I am not suggesting, nor am I of the mind—that it’s a fossil, but it was just so strange lookin’ that I couldn’t help my curiosity, so here I am asking for opinions on what caused this to form and what it’s composed of most likely (if anything other than limestone, that is…. (-__-). location- far nw San Antonio, tx , just outside the foothills of the hillcountry (helotes, tx) Again, I do want to apologize if this belongs in a strictly geological forum somewhere, I’d have probably posted it there instead, had I been aware of one existing which was similar to this platform but exclusively for weird ugly rock identification help (lol). Thanks in advance.
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I was taking a walk with my daughter this evening and these caught my eye as odd.
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Can I find fossils in blasted sediment near construction zone?
Walmart Bag posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hey, so I currently live in Hyderabad, India. Im pretty sure theres no fossils generally being found over here (probably because theres almost 0 paleontologists here) however I did hear you can find fossils in sediments and/or quarries. There is a construction zone near my house where they have been blasting rock in this huge rock plateau. Do you think there could be fossils in the quarry or is that not really possible.
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My son found this rock a while back in the sandbar of a creek bed in Northeastern Kansas. We find all kinds of invertebrate fossils here regularly in/around creek beds, and thought this looked interesting, almost like dinosaur skin? Or some other fossil? I’m 99% positive it’s just some sedimentary rock, as it is cracked on all sides and common in sandbars here, but we’ve never found one like this and I thought it wouldn’t hurt to consult some more knowledgeable people.
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Hello fellow fossil members. I live in Lake Havasu. Enjoy the forum very much. I come across these two rocks, maybe fossils all the time but have no clue as to what they are. They are found near Lake Havasu in the Topack area of Golden Shores. Was an ocean bottom at one time. The small grey rock is 2 inches long and one inch wide and 1/2 inch tall. It is very light and grey color. The second image with two rocks in it look like teeth. They are covered in a white enamel looking material almost like white cake icing with a darker interior. They are both about 4 inches long and two inches wide and very light. The outer white band is very smooth. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello there! I recently found these rocks. And I am super curious as to what rocks they are. I would really appreciate the help in identifying them. The first two are different rocks but I'm betting they are the same type of rock. Thank you.
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Found this laying on the surface of a flat sandy area in southern Maine. I'm not sure what it is.
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Fossilized Plant Stems? or just cracks in a rock filled with sediment (Missouri)
Samurai posted a topic in Fossil ID
All of these are from the Winterset Limestone Formation and dated to the Pennsylvanian period Found in Missouri I found this in a rock that was completely covered in these structures and had many layers to them Here are a few I decided to take home with me Natural color in daylight (measurements are in the last photo of this specimen): Specimen #2 -
Helotes, Tx Part of this shell was sticking out of a chunk of sediment. I used a water pick to clear the rest of it. In trying to determine what kind of shell it is, I’ve found several that are similar, but none with the shell spiral as tight. The closest thing that I could find is below. This doesn’t seem correct considering my location. Placostylus porphyrostomus is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bothriembryontidae. This species is endemic to New Caledonia.
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I seen a topic lastnight that mentioned "ripple marks". I'd never heard of it but had an idea that I had some & turns out that I have a bunch of these & some of them probably weigh a few hundred pounds. I didn't know what they were called but common sense told me what I was looking at. I had planned on cobblestoning my driveway with them originally because to me they look like big stone polaroids of ancient waves & ripples going across the water. This is not a photo of mine but looks exactly like what I have except mine are like 1ft thick. I'll get some pictures if anybody needs or wants any. So what can I learn from these & what can they tell me?
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Okay I don't even know what to say or think about this one. I've had it for some time & you can see why I kept it. It's just weird, it looks like whatever those "beans" are fell from enough of a height to make an indent in the ground below. I also had the thought that this was once part of a wall & these "beans" were dust particles on a bead of water that petrified in the bottom of the indent. The problem with that is the smaller one contradicts that idea unless the wall shifted reorienting this piece. Then on the other side it gets even more interesting. Now your looking at a hole with some kind of round object lodged in the bottom of it. Obviously this isn't the case but it looks like a "BB" shot into some mud. The "BB" has evenly spaced lines wrapping around it which you can see in the close-up picture. It's always fun to speculate about stuff like this but I'd really like to understand what I'm looking at here & how it happened. Thanks in advance.
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I tried figuring out what this thing was but didn't know what to even call it. Found an article the other day that kind of matched it but now I can't find the article or remember what they called it. I think it had something to do with minerals and maybe hot water being pushed up through the crust and solidifying. But I think I remember it saying there was controversy over that theory. It feels like metal it even has what looks like rust (which has gotten thicker since I've found it). It's not magnetic but if you scratch it, it's kind of shiny like metal would be under a painted surface. I also found this in iron county Missouri it's dimension is about 3 in diameter concaved & about 3/8 of an inch thick.
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I have pulled all of the dark sediment. Below it is more of the sediment that I’ve been finding. On the top of it is a white powdery substance. Is this just efflorescence? It’s also on the bottom side of some of the darker sediment.
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What is the best way to work sediment pieces without completely destroying everything? There are two spots in my backyard that my dog constantly digs at. Both of them are in different ares of my concrete porch, within about six feet of each other. Below is a piece that I removed recently.
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Below is a piece of sediment that I pulled from my yard here in San Antonio, Tx. I’m just not 100% sure on what type of rock this is sitting on top of the sediment.
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San Antonio, Tx How long will vegetation in sediment stay alive? I’ve had this piece of sediment that I found here at my house set aside for about two months.
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San Antonio, Tx I was curious as to what would cause a difference in sediment coloring? This piece isn’t like the other hardened sediment pieces I’ve found in my yard. The others are more brown or tan in color.
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San Antonio, Tx Do limestone and/or sediment formations tend to repeat a formation in similar shapes and sizes? The one on the top left appears to be a clay bottle.
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San Antonio , Tx Need help identifying please? I found this one about three inches deep, off of my back porch. IMG_2614.MOV
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Would I be correct in a assuming that this is possibly a silicified sedimentary rock that had a "hole" created and then later filled with another sediment or am I way off?
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Here are two examples of Silicified Sediment, the larger I had found earlier this year, the smaller yesterday...fun trying to guess what made those impressions long long ago!
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