GDawg Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 (edited) I found this near Skidaway Island, which was once home to a 20 ft sloth so I believe the geology would be Holocene and Pleistocene. When hunting fossils, I pick up anything black that doesn't look like a shell. I thought this was a piece of iron, then after washing thought it might be bone. After looking at it with a loupe, I am totally confused. I also found a couple other pieces that I believe to be bone. Thanks for any help. Sorry for the inverted photos...not sure what happened. Edited December 31, 2015 by GDawg Twitter @mgadomskiSEMS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 This looks like slag to me. Maybe someone else will weigh in on this. Regards, 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "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...
Herb Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 looks like slag to me also "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...
abyssunder Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Looks to be Iron based melted mineral result. Slag could be, I agree with Tim. " 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...
GDawg Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 How much iron would be in slag? it does attract a little to a very strong magnet. I think y'all are probably spot on with this I'd after looking at slag pics. Twitter @mgadomskiSEMS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerouac22 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Huh. And now I know what slag is, too. Interesting stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slowpoker Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 (edited) It's slag, I agree with everyone else. The amount of iron? That's difficult to answer from my perspective, but it's not much, as shown by the fact that you need a very strong magnet to attract it. Edited December 31, 2015 by Slowpoker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Slag is the lighter impurities that separate from the iron; there is very little metal in it. 1 "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...
GDawg Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 Slag is the lighter impurities that separate from the iron; there is very little metal in it. That would also account for the lighter weight of this object...thanks to all for sharing their knowledge. Twitter @mgadomskiSEMS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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