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Offline FLOOB

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geology exercise
« on: July 03, 2015, 07:48:33 PM »
Tell me this rock's biography.
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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2015, 07:52:40 PM »
Fossilized Brontosauraus testicle.  Other one over on other hillside. :banana:

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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2015, 07:53:31 PM »
Were it is taken?
From the shape i would say it has been in contact w streaming water and since it seems to be missplaced it might have been moved by ice during the ice age.

edit: or at least by a glacier.

Edit 2: From the ground under the stones its seems like they have ended up there pretty recently, have they rolled down a hillside?
« Last Edit: July 03, 2015, 08:04:13 PM by Zimme83 »
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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2015, 08:00:53 PM »
Have some erratics left by the ice over here too..
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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2015, 08:02:39 PM »
Yep, dropped via an ice sheet as the earth warmed up.

Side note, in the history of the earth 90% of the time it is too hot for polar caps. This means we currently live in the 10% of history, where it is cold enough. Al gore.... :bhead

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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2015, 08:34:19 PM »
Aw crap I posted in the wrong forum.

You guys are just telling me how the rock got there.
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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2015, 08:47:40 PM »
Oh, type of rock...petrified Brontosaurus testicle

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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2015, 09:22:22 PM »
Oh, type of rock...petrified Brontosaurus testicle


Left testicle, to be precise.

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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2015, 09:25:06 PM »
On my computer it looks like sandstone with desert varnish
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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2015, 12:38:29 AM »
Aw crap I posted in the wrong forum.


The worrisome thing, now that I think on it, is that our Floob is a member of a forum that talks about rocks.

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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2015, 05:42:12 AM »
It looks like sandstone, which is interesting given the apparent location. Possibly left behind during their last migration, or carried by a swallow.

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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2015, 07:41:40 AM »
I mean that I meant to post this in the O'club.

My uneducated guess is that it is stratified sandstone which is a freshwater sedimentary rock. Which means it was once the bottom of a big lake. I really don't know. I was hoping somebody here had some geology to teach us.
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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2015, 08:38:20 AM »
"In the beginning there was nothing but rock
Then somebody invented the wheel
And things just began to roll"

That's the Alpha version of Rock'n'Roll in the picture.
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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2015, 10:26:04 AM »
Turds from an alien ship
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Re: geology exercise
« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2015, 10:28:05 AM »
I mean that I meant to post this in the O'club.

My uneducated guess is that it is stratified sandstone which is a freshwater sedimentary rock. Which means it was once the bottom of a big lake. I really don't know. I was hoping somebody here had some geology to teach us.
You'd need at least a rock hammer and preferably a petrographic microscope to elucidate that sort of information. The surfaces of the rock that you can see are too eroded (not to mention too far away) to really get a good idea of what it's made out of. Erosion has an unfortunate tendency to make everything look the same, especially wind erosion. The best you could do in a situation like this is that it looks like it was uprooted and dropped from a glacier, and that they're probably sedimentary / weakly metamorphosed. Identifying rocks in the field (i.e. no petrographic microscope) comes down to biting them sometimes, it's a pretty tactile process.

t. technically i study geology

Yep, dropped via an ice sheet as the earth warmed up.

Side note, in the history of the earth 90% of the time it is too hot for polar caps. This means we currently live in the 10% of history, where it is cold enough. Al gore.... :bhead

boo

it's also only in the past 10,000 years of 200,000 years of biologically modern humans that the climate has been stable and favorable enough to support human civilization