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Does anyone know what fossil this is and if it is a fossil? Some people say it’s a crinoid fossil, Native American bead, or just a rock.
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Amber with fluorensce & pine smell, but not floating
GEORGE-GR-68 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi members, glad to be here, I have a collection of fossils that mainly I want to ID and see also if they are real. My topic now is for amber beads but not sure if they are real or fake. I tried the following: UV light: Fluoresce green (light green) Hot needle test; It smells sweet pine ( after few seconds, not immediately). No definitely not plastic, in Greece there are pines I know the smell. Needle does not penetrate easily the beads. BUT I tried seawater, does not float, I tried also a lot of cooking salt (with iodine) and tap drinking water very warm, (not distilled water) in a stainless metal pan bowl (I had seen in a you tube video was not recommending metal bowl,I do not know why). I have put so much salt that it does not dissolve anymore. Result: They drop., Funny they seem to float a bit before they drop to the bottom, they do not drop down like rocks. Also if rubbed (for a minute) on a sweater (cotton or wool) the bead does not create static electricity, I do not feel my hair going up when I place the bead on my head. So two white flags and two red flags. Do I have topal? (I have no idea if topal behaves differently than amber) Do I have a plastic fake that smells like pine? Or I have real amber but I do something wrong? Any help? Thank you for any possible answer. Note: the same happens for various different beads ie: creamy yellow, light brown with spangles etc. -
From the album: Invertebrates and plants(& misc.)
Debris, including micro glass "beads" from melted earth ejected into the air, from the KT boundary burn layer. Garfield county, Montana, Hell Creek formation. Late cretaceous (duh) *i added "misc." to this album because this didn't fit anywhere, and I thought it was really cool and should definitely be included somewhere. **There could even be vaporized dinosaur material as part of the glass and melted debris included. There definitely was plenty of it, but I guess realistically, unless it became evenly spread into the atmosphere and airborne debris, this is too small an amount of ejecta, and by percentage such a minuscule amount of vaporized dino, so sadly there probably isn't any.