Stottiecake Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Hello, I hope someone on this forum will be able to help me identify this. I love to pick up various pebbles on the local beach and I found this, which seemed unusual to the surrounding rocks. It's about the size of a dinner plate (so it didn't fit in my pocket!) This is the area I found it My cousin suggested it's a piece of concrete and I will be really disappointed if that's the case. Please prove him wrong. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Welcome to the Forum! In my opinion is geological not biological, looks to be concretionary magnesian limestone, so called ‘cannon ball limestone’. 1 " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Thats cool! Care to share how it forms? "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe" - Saint Augustine"Those who can not see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Abyssunder is right, Permian concretionary magnesian limestone, the cliffs are full of it (I'm from Co. Durham myself ). 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Abyssunder is right, Permian concretionary magnesian limestone, the cliffs are full of it (I'm from Co. Durham myself ). Is this by any chance a case where algal involvement has been suggested but not proven ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiggieCie Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Welcome to the Forum, glad to have you with us, and thx for a glimpse into your world. From Northern Ohio, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 "Concretionary magnesian limestone"; this is a new one for me; thank you, Stotticake, for bringing it to the Forum, and thanks all for the answer! 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...
GeschWhat Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Beautiful...and welcome to the forum! Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottiecake Posted October 26, 2015 Author Share Posted October 26, 2015 Thank you all for the warm welcome to this site and the information provided. I am new to this and have found it fascinating and I look at the world with new eyes. I thought the bottom right of the first photo might have been biological, maybe a jellyfish (if they are able to become fossils ). I see what I want to see sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottiecake Posted October 26, 2015 Author Share Posted October 26, 2015 Thats cool! Care to share how it forms? I'd like to know this too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottiecake Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/gcrdb/GCRsiteaccount1966.pdf My research through your above suggestions directed me to this nearby quarry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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