RileyB Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 I found this piece at Calvert Cliffs Maryland on the beach and it seems too irregular to be just a rock and kind of looks like it could be part of an animal, possibly a whale or porpoise. Can anyone help ID this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RileyB Posted May 11, 2023 Author Share Posted May 11, 2023 Last summer I visited Calvert Cliffs state park and found this weird piece on the beach. It seems too irregular to be a rock so I was wondering if it could be a whale/porpoise bone or a bog iron or something else completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahnmut Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Hello RileyB and welcome to the forum. Iron (limonite=iron oxide/hydroxide) concretion seems right. If there is a bone involved somewhere, I can not say for sure. Concretions do often form around fossils. best Regards, J 2 Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Henry Huxley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debivort Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 I think it is a curiously shaped concretion of geologic origin. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RileyB Posted May 11, 2023 Author Share Posted May 11, 2023 Thanks so much for the help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cck Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 A great example of how oddly shaped these iron concretions can be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Topics Merged. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellseeker Posted May 12, 2023 Share Posted May 12, 2023 10 hours ago, RileyB said: Thanks so much for the help! Keep on looking, Once in a while , there is a fossil somewhere in the rock.... The White Queen ".... in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RileyB Posted May 12, 2023 Author Share Posted May 12, 2023 I appreciate all the help with IDing ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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