New Members Seawitch7c2t Posted April 28, 2022 New Members Share Posted April 28, 2022 Please help me to identify this fossil. I am new to this and came across this unique find. I gave Google lenses it and came up empty. Any help to this will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 It appears to be a concretion of some kind. It would help us if you would at least name a location for your find as well as stratigraphy if possible, as is asked in the introduction to this section. Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemipristis Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 No fossil, sorry. It is a water-tumbled rock that has a quartz seam running through it. When the rock was in-place, as part of the formation, a fracture formed. Water rich in dissolved silica flowed through the fracture and the quartz precipitated out, eventually filling the fracture, or "healing" it 1 4 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.' George Santayana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Indeed. Not a fossil as mentioned above but a really cool looking geologic oddity. The harder quartz seam through this rock wore down less quickly while the fragment was tumbling around in a river which rounded it into a nice smooth cobble. While not a fossil, I'm sure many of us would have been moved to bend over and pick it up to take it home as a novelty. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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