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Holly-Rom posted a new activity comment 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months ago@noah-haumann if you check out my other posts I have some nice coral! Nothing big but still cool!
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Leonardo Miranda posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agomosasaur teeth are quite different. this tooth is quite easily seen to be from a shark. mosasaur teeth had a rather different shape, but most of all a different root. @noah-haumann many mosasaurs had quite big teeth. one that l own is the length of my thumb, as big as a great white’s
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoYes, @noah-haumann, the main yellow part is rock, and then all of the differently colored portions are minerals that have mineralized/crystallized into the rock! Hope this description is helpful!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months ago@noah-haumann like @bill-heim said, this does appear to be a rock with mineral inclusions! A fun specimen, but not a fossil!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months ago@noah-haumann as an avid rock, mineral, and fossil collector, I believe that anything that brings you joy or knowledge in your collection is worth keeping!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi there @noah-haumann this is indeed a rock with erosion lines! Sometimes interestingly shaped rocks can appear to look like fossils! One trick is to look for the mineralization that occurs with fossilization! Or, if it is a trace fossil (an imprint of a fossil), usually the fossil isn’t “carved” into the rock like these erosion lines, but rather…[Read more]
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months ago@noah-haumann this does look like a lovely piece of chert! Chert is a sedimentary rock that comes in many colors. Fun fact, it was often used by ancient, indigeneous peoples as the main stone used to make hand axes, arrow heads etc!
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Mackenzie Ross posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoHi @noah-haumann it is kind of difficult to tell from the pictures, but this looks like a stone with chips in it! Hard to tell what the dark mineral is! Do you have any information about where it was found?
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Smudge Smith posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agothanks @noah-haumann
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Matthew Gramling posted a new activity comment 3 years, 7 months ago
3 years, 7 months ago3 years, 7 months agoGreetings @noah-haumann !!! I would say so. The Knox Group here in NWGA has chert deposits for making flints. vert similar color to the one you have here.