rocks

Forum Post I'm looking for two flint rocks, where can I find them? by Guest
I'm looking for two flint rocks, where can I find them?
Forum Post help with rocks by rickymouse
Most of the rocks of soft crystal type rocks around here including the stuff that looks like quarts and flint have the same characteristic. When I try to polish them with a stainless wire wheel on my...
Forum Post Time to rebury my rocks. by rickymouse
It's getting to be time to bury my rocks. Winter is only a month and a half away now, and I can't have holes in the yard. I'll repack them in that stinky. slimey red clay that exists ...
Forum Post cool rocks I found by JSpencer
I found these this weekend on my in-laws land. They have acres covered in these rocks. I have no idea what they are. Any geologists who can comment?
Forum Post Are these just rocks ? by dassonie
the rocks?this is the pic
Forum Post My new pictures of little rocks by rickymouse
Are any of my pictures anything or they now just clasified as rocks? I don't know exactly what I am digging up when I dig, lots of things look like bone and some are bigger things broken up. sh...
Forum Post safely handling fossils/rocks by rickymouse
When collecting fossils and rocks it is detrimental to watch your fluoride uptake. It is fluoride that can cause heavy metals to pass the blood brain barrior and cause mercury poisoning, lead poisoni...
Forum Post KT Boundary in Ireland by Raptor Lewis
... Although, I will say this: I can give you tips on how to recognize it. ALright? 1. Look for rocks that clearly seem to identify Cretaceous rocks (Mainly the last dinosaurs that ever walke...
Forum Post tooth/tusk found while spearfishing by rickymouse
All rocks are not created equal. It seems that your rocks are just as precious as gold if you want them to be. It's interesting analyzing what people collect and the difference in how we look a...
Forum Post pics posted to album by JSpencer
...esolution. I reduced them and posted to album. I posted obsidian pics there as well as some cool looking rocks I found this weekend at my in-laws place. 20 acres of mesquite trees and rocks! I always ...
Forum Post My rock? But Im not sure its a rock, by JSpencer
Sorry but I vote it is a rock. I have some rocks that I keep just because they are interesting looking. I hope to construct a water feature along back patio with these rocks. They just keep adding up....
Forum Post hungry ants by rickymouse
I have ants eating the quartz veins in the rocks in my yard, Is that normal? Also I have rocks that look like venison roasts and one looks like a huge turkey heart. I think by the coloring they may ...
Forum Post Fossils in Alabama by meskalin
...ntral Alabama'? The Geology of Alabama, especially the NorthEast quarter is quite complex including rocks so severly metamorphised that all fossils are gone and others too old to have fossils. Bu...
Photo Comment Another view of the coprolite by rickymouse
I seem to remember eating poop rocks when I was a kid, or was that pop rocks?
Forum Post Orange County SoCal Yields Dinosaurs by Newtron_Flux
I think the issue is that essentially all of California's Cretaceous rocks are marine, so the only dinosaurs found are those that were somehow washed into the sea. The San Diego Museum of Natural...
Forum Post Any guesses on what this could be? by JSpencer
I`ve found many rocks over the years with what I know has to be some kind of trace fossil but can`t be identified. I usually collect them anyhow and put large ones in my flower beds. I plan to build a...
Forum Post There was was a name for the asteroid that killed the life o... by JSpencer
Thanks Raptor! The little bit of knowledge I have is what`s left from learning as a child about rocks. Because where I lived there were no rocks so they interested me as I came across them. But I grew...
Forum Post wierd rock by JSpencer
...is area of Texas but is found northwest of here. It may be marble but is an interesting color unlike any rocks I`ve run across here in Austin area. I just have a sometimes bad habit of picking up rock...
Photo Comment stromatolites? by JSpencer
The reddish look is in most of the rocks in that area where the soil is also red. I believe there must be a lot of hematite from my dealings with the rocks there. The red powder produced when cutting ...
Blog Comment What Do You Expect From The Natural History Museum? by tyler keenan
fossils and dinosaurs crystals and rocks and other things like that they need to make one in st.louis missouri!
Photo Comment Cutaway view by rickymouse
You see lots of stuff with strange patterns and shapes in rocks on the lakeshore of Lake Superior. I am just used to seeing these as normal rocks. When I go swimming I look for sand, when I am with th...
Forum Post Metazoans now 600 million years old by Heelman
...r in the _Journal of the Geological_ Society of London_, 'Neonereites uniserialis from c. 600Ma old rocks in western Scotland and the emergence of animals.' This documents apparent metazoan ...
Forum Post Rock ID by rickymouse
...arm, rock hunted with my uncle and aunt, and have his collection in my basement. I either have not seen rocks like these before or haven't really been looking at things with an open mind in the ...
Forum Post Fossil Egg? please help by scaredycat
...n our property in upstate Pennsylvania about 5 miles north of the town of Dushore. It was loose, but the rocks that the area is mostly made of is a pinkish sandstone. I've had it with my other ...
Forum Post Dry Site fossiling - Tooth Valley - Florida by CBulla
... The rock with the black in it, by the way.. I have no idea the bone in it. There were so many limestone rocks with chunks of fossil bone in it that it became part of the back drop. The simple fact I ...
Forum Post soft shale clean up by tyler keenan
...I find those to. In missouri whole trilobites are extremely rare!!! And I dont see any whole ones on the rocks I just see lobes, Mostly the cephon thorax and pygidium. I see more of the pygiduim, Aka ...
Forum Post Guys post some of your rock/fossil pics by rickymouse
I'm getting tired of looking at my own rocks. Get busy, don't be shy
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