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Hello! Newbie here with a love for fossils. I have a very small collection and only casually hunt for them. Anyways, I was on a trip to Forest County, Pennsylvania this past weekend. I was cruising a creek channel looking for trout in the Allegheny NF when this caught my eye. My gut feeling was this looks like a piece of wood, but it's very dense, it does feel heavy like a piece of stone. There's a lot of sandstone in this creek valley, but this feels much heavier than that. Bark-like striations and some is flaking off like a sedimentary or mica flavor of rock. It's flat on one side with a small ridge down the middle. Both ends are also flat, almost like a cut piece of wood.
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cool polished quartz piece I found in the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Rocks & Minerals
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek I found a very nice polished piece of quartz that was shaped like a ball. The nice thing about it was the creek polished it for me.
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Hi everyone this is Matt again. In the creek today, I found a fossil that looked like wood. Can anyone tell me what kind of wood it could be ? Here is a photo:
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Hi im new to the forum My son and found this out fossil hunting it looks like a giant tooth. It was about 100 meter above sea level in a drained dam Its real heavy for the size of it Any ideas????????
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Found in Germany, sadly i don´t know if i found it where i live, in Hamm NRW, germany or while i was visting either the north or east sea (Nordsee/Ostsee). Had it since I was a small child and was always fascinated by it but couldnt find out, what it is. Because I have it in my possession for about 15 years, i cant really tell much more about location or anthing else, just that it looks like an egg to me, but that might be what I want it to be. its about 6x3x2,5cm big, one side is almost flat with some dark spots and a crack i think going through it. the other side looks like an egg, but has a crater on it. Between the flat and the convex is a dark grey border around 1mm thick that goes around the whole thing.
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My friend found this fossil about 35 years. Can anyone identify what it could possibly be?
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I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas
matthew textor posted a topic in Members' News & Diversions
Hi everyone this is Matt again I just wanted to wish everyone on the forum a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. -
Hello all, I can’t figure this one out! I was collecting fossils from a highly yielding site in Peace River. In this little section of gravel that I reached, it was almost entirely fossilized bone from dugong and whale and turtle. Nestled in the center of this pile of fossils, I uncovered this stone and was immediately taken aback. I have been rock and fossil hunting my entire life, and extensively in this state and this river, and I have never seen anything like this. I have an enormous and worldly collection of rocks and fossils, and I have never seen something this smooth naturally. It is the smoothest stone I have ever seen. It is far too smooth to be riverworn. When I lived in TN I would find rocks that had been remarkably smoothed by the passing river water, but that is not the case with this rock, I am confident. It is soft and heavy and slippery. If I had seen it in a house I would have thought it had been professionally polished. It is not porous at all, it is not smoothed bone or a phosphate nodule. It is significantly heavy and deeply black, almost blue. It looks as though the color beneath the black exterior is almost a light greenish. Even the area where the green is showing through is completely soft. In the flash of my phone light the entire stone almost looks bluish green. The closest explanation I have reached is that it is either a burnishing stone used by Native Americans (I have found artifacts and bone tools nearby this site, so perhaps they smoothed the stone out while using it for processing hides, etc) or it is some sort of fossilized gizzard stone or gastrolith. I know this is unlikely, as we have no dinosaur fossils here, but I read somewhere that extinct whale remains have produced such fossils before, as they apparently utilized gizzard stones as well. If anyone could help me out, I would so appreciate it! Also I apologize for the photo quality and scale, I was trying to capture how different it is than bone and its unique colors.
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If this is stone, it's very strange. Found in NE colorado near the WY border.
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Any ideas? Looked a little like scales to me? Found in the North east coast of N. Ireland.
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Hello, I'm from The Netherlands. (Excuse me if my English isn't perfect) A few years ago I found this grey stone amidst the garden gravel near my house. It was bigger and duller in comparison to the rest of the gravel. When I inspected the stone I discovered that it wasn't so dull after all because on one side it had a small imprint of a star that appeared to be made out of tiny bumps and ridges that extend and surround the star itself in the shape of a circle. I've always been curious to know what it is!
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Hi i found this in Sounth West Poland, it was on a road in the wood. There were many stones to make the sand road stronger when vehicles moves. I just thought it is not normal stone. Sorry foe my english, I am from Poland. This weird shapes have in it some like mud stone, I think with some equipment it can be cleaned but not with water.
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look at this small rock that has 2 neat brachiopods in it
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Again in the creek, I found another small rock with 2 neat brachiopods in it. Here is a photo of the fossil:
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This is heavy, like stone. I have never seen anything like this. Found in NE Colorado. If it were fossilised bone it would be porous I guess.
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Beach 'Finds': Are Any of These Anything in Particular - or Just Curious Stones...
JamieC7696 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Dear Forum, These I found whilst exploring Shotley Beach, just by Felixstowe in East Anglia, England. I've taken two pictures of each ('front' and 'back' - they're all very flat); but I can provide more if something's really of interest! Regarding nomenclature, we can refer to them as A-G. Best Regards Jamie
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take a look at this coral fossil I found in the creek today
matthew textor posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
Hi everyone this is Matt again. Today in the creek fossil hunting I found this cool coral fossil. Here is a photo :
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Location: Sweetwater, TX
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Location: Sweetwater, TX
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Location: Sweetwater, TX
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I bought this online and they have 100 percent positive feed back. I can return it if its fake. I was told by a local rock hound that if it has an insect in the amber its 99 times out of 100 fake. I don't have it yet its out of Lithuania and will not be here for a few weeks. I can do the salt water test and ultra violet test but wondered what you guys thought visually. Thanks. il_794xN.2807983782_6qbi.webp il_794xN.2855654925_ey8q.webp il_794xN.2855655027_qkaj.webp il_794xN.2855655185_inhf.webp il_794xN.2855655297_8c87.webp il_1140xN.2855654925_ey8q.webp il_1140xN.2855655027_qkaj.webp
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Everyone this is Matt again. I found this large rock that was a black color and in the middle of the rock there was a spot where there the ore had a strange brown color . I removed a sample of the brown ore to take some photos - can anyone tell me what this stuff is ? Here are 4 photos Hi
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Hi everyone this is matt again today in the creek I found this strange rock with lines in it does anyone know what it is ? here is a photo
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Hi, I found this fossil on my land in Co. Galway, Ireland today. Can you please confirm what sort of fossil it is. Roughly just over 6 inches by 6 inches. Thank you, Mattie
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Hi this is Matt again. What kind of rock is this ? I found it in the creek today. Here are 2 photos :
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