BLT Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Could anyone tell me if this is some type of fossil, bone or rock? I found it in a creek in middle Tennessee. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I'm seeing some texture in the second image in the middle of the more circular area. Could you do a closeup of that? At the moment, it looks a bit like a coral (such as Hexagonaria). ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I will side with a non fossil rock on this piece. 1 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...
BLT Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 Thanks, @Kane, @ynot. Here are a few close up pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Thanks for the closeups. Hm. I am now doubting my initial coral guess, and may be leaning more to ynot's assessment that this may just be a worn sedimentary rock. ...How to Philosophize with a Hammer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLT Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 Thanks so much! @Kane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 I stick with My original assessment, non fossil rock. 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...
Rockwood Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Standing on their own rocks like this may look as if they formed in some weird hard to imagine way, but inclusions like this which are more durable than the country rock are actually quite common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLT Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 Thanks again, @ynot! Thank you, @Rockwood! I have recently found four rocks similar to this shape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 All look the same to Me, concretions in sandstone. Often porous rock will have areas within it where minerals have concreted which makes that area of the rock a little harder and more resistant to erosion. 3 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...
GeschWhat Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 51 minutes ago, BLT said: Thanks again, @ynot! Thank you, @Rockwood! I have recently found four rocks similar to this shape. Not seeing fossils either, but they are really interesting and fun! Lori www.areallycrappystory.com/fossils www.facebook.com/fossilpoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLT Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 Thanks, @GeschWhat! Can anyone tell me what caused this oddly shaped rock to form this way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Looks like two layers of differing rock where one has eroded more than the other. 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...
BLT Posted July 6, 2018 Author Share Posted July 6, 2018 Thanks, @ynot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 It may have been a corner that broke off in between larger blocks of the lighter colored rocks that just happened to stay with the layer above or beneath it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 There might be ichnofabrics and trace fossils in your specimens, but it's hard to say, also there is the possibility of geological creations, as Tony suggested. " 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...
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