StevieFresh Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Not sure if it is a fossil, but really want to identify it. Tried some forums before, and thinking of taking it to get checked out. Thanks for looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Welcome to ! I do not see a fossil. I think it is a agate replacement of a mineral such as tremolite.. Very nice example of a pseudomorph. (Where one mineral replaces another. Tony PS It kind of looks like coral, but it is missing the detail of a coral. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey P Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Doesn't look like a fossil to me either. Where in New Jersey was it found? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieFresh Posted December 17, 2016 Author Share Posted December 17, 2016 Thanks, I appreciate your comments. Salem county NJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 It looks similar to Scolecite. also here " 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...
Pagurus Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 I was thinking coral at first but I agree it's likely a mineral, as Tony and others have suggested. I think Stilbite might be a good possibility, though I'm only going by what I've seen on internet searches: New Jersey Red Stilbite (search): link One of these images looks very much like yours, but I can't testify to the accuracy of the ID. Quartz pseudomorphs after Anhydrite with Stilbite-Ca from Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey link Start the day with a smile and get it over with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifbrindacier Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 That's also what i thought in the first place, but when i looked more closely i wasn't so sure. "On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) "We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes." In memory of Doren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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