nerzhin Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Hi there. My sons and I, here in southeast Michigan, have just started fossil collecting, and we were wondering about the rocks below, if they are fossils or something else. Thanks for your time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 More than anything else, this looks like slag to me. Any smelters in the area? In any case, not of organic origins. 1 "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darktooth Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I agree I have found stuff that looks similar to your picture and I also was told it was slag. I like Trilo-butts and I cannot lie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerzhin Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 Thanks. I've never heard of slag...found these in a stream in some nearby woods. Have more pictures, but keep bumping up against the size limits. The weird thing is they definitely have shell-like shapes in them. No smelters in the area currently, just woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 limestone erodes this way which would account for the invert impressions in the last pic. The black color in the first post made me think slag also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerzhin Posted March 31, 2015 Author Share Posted March 31, 2015 Ok thanks for the responses. It definitely matches up with many of the slag pics online. Going to post a different one in a new thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 there are fossil fragments in it, some of the Mississippian limestones and dolestones weather that way, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"_ Carl Sagen No trees were killed in this posting......however, many innocent electrons were diverted from where they originally intended to go. " I think, therefore I collect fossils." _ Me "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."__S. Holmes "can't we all just get along?" Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennyT. Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 The first one is slag but the second has fossils in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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