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dsludden

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Good morning, this item is cross posted on Facebook. This cool rock was found in the surf at Onslow Beach in Jacksonville NC. There are Gastropods, unidentified shell and mystery circles/ovals by the hundreds if not thousands. My question is what are these little round areas? The rock is shown wet in order to bring out the features listed. Size 1.5” x 1”.  The rock is smooth to touch despite seeing texture in photo.  Thank you in advance! 

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Maybe some form of mineral stained oolitic limestone.

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 caldigger, thank you for the information. I went to google and the images shown for oolitic limestone match my mystery rock! Thank you very much for educating me on this interesting rock! 

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nice oolites and gastropods.

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You have a sea snail fossil on the first photo. Looks like a turritella and sea snail on the second photo.

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Very nice find. Certainly worthy of a home in anyone's collection. Congratulations.

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Mark Kmiecik, Bronzviking and Herb, thank you for commenting on my post. It was an unusual find from this site. I love all of the interesting components found in the rock. 

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6 hours ago, dsludden said:

My question is what are these little round areas?

Those are ooids of oolitic limestone. :)

I agree with the others.

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Abyssunder, I have a healthy respect for your knowledge base so it is always great to see you weigh in on my posts. Thank you for responding. 

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3 hours ago, dsludden said:

Abyssunder, I have a healthy respect for your knowledge base so it is always great to see you weigh in on my posts. Thank you for responding. 

You are welcome! :)

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