Little treasure
posted by DCveR at 8:55 PM
Friday, April 21, 2006
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13 Comments:
A beatiful piece.
Wow !!!
Very nice indeed, you into fossils then Dc? I have a jar full after recent excavations...nothing quite as impressive as your pics though
CR
DC, that's beautiful!
Reminds me of an old girlfriend....Michelle!
there is another reminder, that something can always be replaced by something else...
phoenix: They're quite common and don't even have much value, but they sure are a beauty.
ariadne: It only took mother nature a few million years to do it. ;)
CR: I'm not a fossil expert or anything of the kind, but we have got a little collection of fossils, some that we bought some picked by GH and I. Add to that a huge collection of mineral samples.
cream: A fossil reminds you of an ex? Are you confessing to her murder? Is she on her way to becoming a fossil herself?
TGOV: Not really like lost wax casting, the metal isn't melted into a mold, this is a "cold" process of deposition where the metal is dissolved in water and as that same water dissolves the original minerals of the shell their place is filled with metal that precipitates.
art by falco: Thanks.
ale: You know, a pessimist would sadly agree you are right. Me? I say: fortunately! ;)
Ignorant question here D...how do you know a fossil from...well, just any ol' thing?
christine: No need for thanking. How's the new camera? We're waiting for some pics posts!
GG: You can find the answer to that here, and they explain it far better than I would. How do I know a fossil is real and not a forgery? If I find it in nature I assume it is real and GH checks it, if it is on sale at a store usually I won't buy it without GH's approval, after all she is the geologist, not me.
I got one of 'em that's 45 kilos and whole. It came from my home beach, the UNESCO Heritage Jurassic Coast. They are 60 million years old.
I don't think it's pyritised though. But I'm not about to chop it in half to find out.
Beautiful, DcVer.
aunty marianne: NO!!! STOP!!! Pyrite is mainly iron, the easy way to check if a fossil is partly pyritized is using a magnet, not destroying it! Although if you don't see any signs of metal in the outside and if it is not an area where pyrite is abundant (iron mining areas) it probably isn't.
As I SAID - I'm NOT about to chop it in half.
They tend to be quartz geodes around my way anyway.
aunty marianne: Sorry, I've misread you!
Huummm... but if you have a 45kg quartz geode. I would try and check that and probably would open it, after all, what is the fun of a closed geode? I don't really know how to check that though. I'll ask GH.
Thanks for the link, D. Very interesting. I'll read it a few more times.
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