Tuesday Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Please could somebody help me identify this rock I found on the beach. Many thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FossilDudeCO Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 looks similar to a stromatolite I think that @JohnBrewer has posted. I could be wrong on the who, if I am, John will put me back in line! Let's also get the opinion of @ynot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 What is the size? Looks like beekite which is a type of chalcedony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Welcome to TFF! Need to know where it was found and what size it is. (Lots of beaches around the world.) It could be a stromatolite, but it could also be other (non fossil) rocks. Can You do a hardness test? (See if it will scratch with a knife). Also can You post pictures of the back and sides? Tony 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...
Tuesday Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 (edited) I found it on Goodrington Sands in Torbay, Devon, UK. It doesn't scratch easily with a knife (I had a good old hack at it) Thankyou all for your incredibly speedy replies and warm welcome. I wet the rock, I do hope a cotton bud (q-tip) will suffice for measurement purposes? Total novice here. Edited August 10, 2017 by Tuesday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 I have to agree with @Al Dente, it looks like beekite. 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...
JohnBrewer Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Welcome to the forum! Not stromatolite from that area I'm sure. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 It's a neat piece! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 nice beekite specimen "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...
Tuesday Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 Thankyou all!! Fascinating stuff. I will look out for more. Beekite, recognised as small, concentric rings (cylinders, ellipsoids, or spheres in 3D) of microcrystalline quartz is recorded as first brought to attention of geologists by Henry Beeke, probably from studies around Torbay.[2] Early studies were reported by Thomas McKenny Hughes, in Devon,[3] and R. Etheridge in Australia.[4] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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