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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FLOOB on July 03, 2015, 07:48:33 PM
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Tell me this rock's biography.
(http://pearlsofpromiseministries.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/red-rock-coulee-c2a9-2012-christopher-martin-2406.jpg)
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Fossilized Brontosauraus testicle. Other one over on other hillside. :banana:
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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?
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Have some erratics left by the ice over here too..
(http://sverigesradio.se/sida/images/2563/1095497_1200_900.jpg?preset=article-auto-height)
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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
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Aw crap I posted in the wrong forum.
You guys are just telling me how the rock got there.
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Oh, type of rock...petrified Brontosaurus testicle
boo
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Oh, type of rock...petrified Brontosaurus testicle
Left testicle, to be precise.
- oldman
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On my computer it looks like sandstone with desert varnish
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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.
- oldman
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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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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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"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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Turds from an alien ship
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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
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---> Might be considered Geology Exercise...
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It's an eroded curling stone. It's just that the close-up makes it look much larger than it is. You can see where the handle broke off at the top which is probably why the Neanderthals left it.
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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.
Try "How the Earth was Made" or some such Discovery show. There was some bizarre stuff on things like landmass here in the US that waz the same as some in some really remote area of some continent. Really cool stuff I can't put my brain cells on more specifically right now. But it wasn't through the expected sources like glacial movement which is part of why it was so cool.
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From the point of looking at it on my computer, hard to say not being able to look at how dense it is or how the layers are on it, it looks like a massive piece of leaver rite. its pretty hard to determine with out being there but I would say its a piece of leaver rite where ya found it :D