Modern flakes of the same Oligocene silicified wood from west-central Louisiana. Top views are a flintknapped perforator. This particular "petrified wood" (~50 lb. block) is extremely hard & mostly only suitable for tool production. #FossilFriday#fossils#Archaeology#Flintknapping
Two fossil imprints of the shells of Trigonia dug up today near the top of a hill in #Bath#Somerset#UK. These molluscs lived in the Jurassic Period at a time when even the hills in Bath were under water. The rock is (I think) Inferior Oolite. #Fossils#Mollusc#Fossil#Nature#Geology#Jurassic
Piña jurásica fosilizada (Araucaria mirabilis) encontrada en Santa Cruz, Argentina. El paso de 160 millones de años ha hecho que solo sea comestible para los más valientes. #fosiles#fossils#plantas#plants
Did you know fossils were used to make American beer?
Diatomite has a very small particle size, a high porosity, and is relatively inert. That makes it an excellent material for use as a filter. Much of the beer brewed in the United States is filtered through crushed diatomite, known as diatomaceous earth.
Also used to filter syrup, honey. drinking water, juice, swimming pool water and more
An ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton.
AP reports: "Fossils found near a coal mine revealed a snake that stretched an estimated 36 feet (11 meters) to 50 feet (15 meters). It’s comparable to the largest known snake at about 42 feet (13 meters) that once lived in what is now Colombia."
Fossilized communal coral in this limestone pebble. It would have lived and grown on the floor of the tropical sea that covered this part of the earths surface between 320 million and 360 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.
Through the microscope eye-piece phone shot of a magnified, thermally-altered, agatized (fossilized) coral flake, Hillsborough Co., Florida. #archaeology#Fossils
Oligocene silicified wood from west-central Louisiana with hard powdery yellow ochre or fine silt sticking to the surface. Note the ancient rodent gnawing. 1/ #FossilFriday#Fossils
Today I had a ton of chores to do, so I dug my rocks out and took pictures of some of them. Now I guess I will do the chores, but when I sit down I will play with the photos and post the results in this thread. Will probably add to it every now and again for a while.
This piece makes the hippie part of my soul happy, what with looking like yin and yang on one side. About an inch and a half in diameter, smoky quartz.
Fossil time. I only took pics of a few of these, but that still means a ton of pics for me to sort through. After this post, I better do dishes and dinner, then I'll sort out more pics.
See that tiny swirl by the mechanical pencil lead? I think of it as my spiral goddess. A similar shot is in my Redbubble shop, we have a poster sized print over the bed. Always amazes me to see the poster and know how tiny it is. The crystals are often full of wee rainbows, fun to explore with the jewler's loupe. Like the sphere, it makes me happy in my hippie places. I put jelly bellies in it to nibble on them one at a time when I do the savor and enjoy kind of thing.
Amber landscapes. I have about 12 termites in the piece, or impressions of where a termite was but decayed away as the amber hardened, like the last image.