Nothos Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Wonders and wonders and wonders !!! !!! !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 (edited) How'd YOU know------ "I wonder" what this agate replaced form is? It's from the agate aturia locale. Over the years I just can't figger????? Y'all like puzzles, got any ideas? It is a complete one BTW. Edited July 3, 2013 by PRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 ...Y'all like puzzles, got any ideas? It is a complete one BTW. Puzzler... I can just make out something like parallel 'growth lines': Some kind of cover or lid??? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 (edited) Ya mean like flintstone mayonnaise, or peanut butter? I think not, it's organic and yes, I saw those. But??? Edited July 3, 2013 by PRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Dunno; totally speculating here... Some kind of lid or cover, similar to an aptychus in function??? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 AHH ! could you explain APTYCHUS I don't know which aminal that is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 How'd YOU know------ "I wonder" what this agate replaced form is? It's from the agate aturia locale. Over the years I just can't figger????? Y'all like puzzles, got any ideas? It is a complete one BTW. This is interesting. Do you have pictures from other angles to show us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Sure--- what would you like? Side & back would help. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Firstly let me say I've seen a goodly number of clam casts where the hollow that was left by the dissolved shell and had not been completely filled.(only up to a certain level), indicating a "water level" of agate. I have no idea if this is the case here or not. Possibly they were two complete cones base to base, but only partially filled with agate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Dente Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 The only idea I could come up with for this shape of two cones together would be two fish vertebrae close together and agate filled the void space between them. Tuna vertebrae have a deep concave surface that is roughly this shape and could be this size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 This is a lot more 3-dimensional than I first thought; my earlier conjecture is voided. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Hi al dente---same here. I have collected this area for sometime and odd as it may be, I have found/seen absolutely no indications of any - vert material at this locality, along with the "cones" being so elongate, gives me pause for this I'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) Here is an interesting piece of agatized wood from the Aturia creek. They also have a hollow interior filled with lovely drusy quartz lining Edited October 22, 2013 by PRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Very nice! "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...
PRK Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 ID like you all to meet my solid agate Martian spaceman friend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Looks like one of those stress-relieving dolls that you squeeze and the eyes bug out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Ha ha.i see it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) My largest complete Aturia. Not agate tho Collected near Salem or. Edited March 29, 2014 by PRK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwigia Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Nice one! I just noticed that nobody answered your question about Aptychus. Maybe you already found out for yourself. but you can take a look here anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptychus Greetings from the Lake of Constance. Roger http://www.steinkern.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 (edited) I was quite disappointed when this aturia broke in half. Until I noticed the small but perfect crystals growing within one of the hollow chambers Probably calcite? Edited October 30, 2015 by PRK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrangellian Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I was quite disappointed when this aturia broke in half. Until I noticed the small but perfect crystals growing within one of the hollow chambers Probably calcite? Could be, but I would have guessed the beigish mineral was calcite, or is it aragonite and the white xls are calcite (or qtz)? I dunno.. Can we see the broken piece put back in place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRK Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Definitely NOT quartz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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