Anyone have any guesses? I broke one in half to see what the inside looked like because part of me tgought could not be a rock at all and maybe from a mold.
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Anyone have any guesses? I broke one in half to see what the inside looked like because part of me tgought could not be a rock at all and maybe from a mold.
petrified chocolate crinkle cookie.:shrug:
petrified dino Egg or Poo??
very rare & worth thousand when whole but unfortunately worthless if broken ??
but now its broken it looks crystalline bit like a thunder egg with out the hollow
Not sure what it is, but the concretions are plainly visible, so it wasn't poured in a mold. Kind of resembles a petrified turtle shell, lol.
Almost looks like some pine tar got on it and dried with those cracks. it doesn't look natural.
I once saw a chunk of quartz that had an iron oxide yellowish layer all around it. In that case the rock had found it's way into a sanitary sewer and over the years the iron leached out from the waste covering it. All kinds of strange things can happen to rocks assuming that is what you have there.
How hard is it?
This stone is very hard. I didn't think it was natural either that's why I broke one in half.. I have about a dozen of them so that's why I parted with one. Now that it is broken and I see the inside it looks more natural to me based on what looks like sparkles Of Rock inside. Whatever happened to this happened to others as well. Was thinking they could hav come from the desert and dried in the sun and wind? Maybe I can lap and polish one and sharpen something..
Dinosaur Cookies,,,Attachment 230116
Maybe kinda looks like a geode in some form or another. I found a place where this type was laying in a big clump/pile. They all had what looked like mud caked on the outside and some like yours. Then others had a more complete yet smashed geode. I saw a lot of stages mostly flat . Some hollow, most not. Nothing pretty :<0|
Parts almost look like apache tears but they are usually dark on the outside. Probably some type of volcanic ejecta of some sort. Does the dark area inside look glassy? If so might be obsidian.
I think maybe Substance is right… Fossil Dinosaur Coprolite Hurry lap it flat and get a razor on it... could be the next best seller. A labeled Schmears poop stone!.
Mike
Looks just like that.. Though not sure why mine has what look like Rock inside. Maybe deposit of minerals.
Just wait till you lap it under running water,,,,:DQuote:
Originally Posted by MODINE
That's just realy cool to have laying around!
aparrently paleontologists can deduce some information from them about their "previous owner", so maybe you can contact someone in a nearby university who might be interrested to take a look at them, if he turns them into slaps while doing so you might be able to try and hone a razor on a dino turt :P
Coprolites are fossilized and are totally rock. They are usually uniformly dark in color with streaks running through them. They don't have the surface this one has. They often times polish them up and use them in jewelry.
a polished turt as jewlery, I wonder how my girlfriend would react :)
Who was it that could determine grit by the lick test?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hirlau
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It looks like a septarian concretion.
