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09/04/2017 10:01:21 AM · #1 |
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09/04/2017 12:18:00 AM · #2 |
Hah! Shoot it again and stick it in the challenge :-) |
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09/03/2017 10:23:59 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao: Originally posted by scalvert: Originally posted by Art Roflmao: And geology is such a fast-evolving science. :P |
The science is pretty much the same, but my memory... not so much. Back in my heyday, a North Carolina jeweler challenged people to ID 10 gemstones in a glass case. They were all uncommon items like iolite, spinel, and tsavorite, and there were no restrictions on who coud try, so a lot of other jewelers entered. I got 7 out of 10, and a couple I was friends with (both gemologists) got 8 out of 10. Nobody else did better than 4. I was 14 years old at the time. |
Impressive. And yet you went on to become a... a... Well, not a jeweler or a geologist. :P :) |
Drat... no discount on jewels?? sigh. |
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09/03/2017 10:17:17 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by scalvert: Originally posted by Art Roflmao: And geology is such a fast-evolving science. :P |
The science is pretty much the same, but my memory... not so much. Back in my heyday, a North Carolina jeweler challenged people to ID 10 gemstones in a glass case. They were all uncommon items like iolite, spinel, and tsavorite, and there were no restrictions on who coud try, so a lot of other jewelers entered. I got 7 out of 10, and a couple I was friends with (both gemologists) got 8 out of 10. Nobody else did better than 4. I was 14 years old at the time. |
Impressive. And yet you went on to become a... a... Well, not a jeweler or a geologist. :P :) |
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09/03/2017 11:03:12 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao: And geology is such a fast-evolving science. :P |
The science is pretty much the same, but my memory... not so much. Back in my heyday, a North Carolina jeweler challenged people to ID 10 gemstones in a glass case. They were all uncommon items like iolite, spinel, and tsavorite, and there were no restrictions on who coud try, so a lot of other jewelers entered. I got 7 out of 10, and a couple I was friends with (both gemologists) got 8 out of 10. Nobody else did better than 4. I was 14 years old at the time.
Message edited by author 2017-09-03 11:13:56. |
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09/03/2017 11:01:28 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by vawendy: Cory AND Shannon!! This is a good thread, indeed! |
Either this rocks or there goes the neighborhood. |
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09/03/2017 09:34:30 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by scalvert: My guess is a yellow quartzite, but I was waiting to see if Cory would show up with an expert opinion. It's been decades since my days of instant rock ID. |
Cory AND Shannon!! This is a good thread, indeed! |
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09/03/2017 02:58:59 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by scalvert: My guess is a yellow quartzite, but I was waiting to see if Cory would show up with an expert opinion. It's been decades since my days of instant rock ID. |
And geology is such a fast-evolving science. :P |
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09/03/2017 02:38:58 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Cory: Originally posted by Bear_Music: Originally posted by vawendy:
I know how to fix that... :D |
What she said. Just make it habitual to pop in for 30 minutes twice a week and make a few posts and we'll be good to go :-) |
Well, I really should. I should actually take photos again sometime..
And Snaffles gave me the heads up on this thread, so thanks Susan! |
You're welcome Cory! Wish you were back here too :-) |
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09/03/2017 01:24:19 AM · #10 |
My guess is a yellow quartzite, but I was waiting to see if Cory would show up with an expert opinion. It's been decades since my days of instant rock ID. |
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09/03/2017 01:12:27 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music: Originally posted by vawendy:
I know how to fix that... :D |
What she said. Just make it habitual to pop in for 30 minutes twice a week and make a few posts and we'll be good to go :-) |
Well, I really should. I should actually take photos again sometime..
And Snaffles gave me the heads up on this thread, so thanks Susan!
Message edited by author 2017-09-03 01:27:51. |
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09/02/2017 10:35:58 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by vawendy: Originally posted by Cory: Originally posted by vawendy: Originally posted by Cory: Drum roll please...
LOL.
The furthest I can go with any authority is that this appears to be a clay rich metamorphic rock, with likely later solution transport through fractures. : No significant value, but a very cool rock. Nice find. |
Hi Cory!! I was wondering where you were -- I was hoping you'd show up for this one. Miss you! |
Miss you too!
I'm just so busy with other stuff I rarely photograph anything any more. *shrug*
Miss ALL of you SO much. |
I know how to fix that... :D |
What she said. Just make it habitual to pop in for 30 minutes twice a week and make a few posts and we'll be good to go :-) |
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09/02/2017 10:06:50 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Cory: Originally posted by vawendy: Originally posted by Cory: Drum roll please...
LOL.
The furthest I can go with any authority is that this appears to be a clay rich metamorphic rock, with likely later solution transport through fractures. : No significant value, but a very cool rock. Nice find. |
Hi Cory!! I was wondering where you were -- I was hoping you'd show up for this one. Miss you! |
Miss you too!
I'm just so busy with other stuff I rarely photograph anything any more. *shrug*
Miss ALL of you SO much. |
I know how to fix that... :D |
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09/02/2017 09:54:18 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by vawendy: Originally posted by Cory: Drum roll please...
LOL.
The furthest I can go with any authority is that this appears to be a clay rich metamorphic rock, with likely later solution transport through fractures. : No significant value, but a very cool rock. Nice find. |
Hi Cory!! I was wondering where you were -- I was hoping you'd show up for this one. Miss you! |
Miss you too!
I'm just so busy with other stuff I rarely photograph anything any more. *shrug*
Miss ALL of you SO much. |
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09/02/2017 09:20:03 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Cory: Drum roll please...
LOL.
The furthest I can go with any authority is that this appears to be a clay rich metamorphic rock, with likely later solution transport through fractures. : No significant value, but a very cool rock. Nice find. |
Hi Cory!! I was wondering where you were -- I was hoping you'd show up for this one. Miss you! |
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09/02/2017 08:45:23 PM · #16 |
Drum roll please...
LOL.
The furthest I can go with any authority is that this appears to be a clay rich metamorphic rock, with likely later solution transport through fractures. : No significant value, but a very cool rock. Nice find. |
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09/02/2017 12:58:55 PM · #17 |
I read the title oh-so-very-wrong...... |
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09/02/2017 09:06:31 AM · #18 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music: Syas content isn't available... |
seem to have a "rockblock" just now |
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09/01/2017 07:33:30 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by kirbic: Originally posted by Art Roflmao: I got this answer from a deniable source:
"I'll take a wild stab at it. It's not easy with just a photo. In the old days I would actually employ taste and smell, sometimes. My gut reaction is Mylonite Schist, with some later fluids percolating through, leaving some calcite(?) veining along shear planes." |
Somehow I knew this thread would take a schist ;-) |
OK, I'll granite -- you're the first with a geologic pun ... :-( |
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09/01/2017 06:40:07 PM · #20 |
Chlorite schist?
From a geologist
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08/31/2017 06:15:56 PM · #21 |
haha, good stuff all, thanks! I'll google some of those words. |
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08/31/2017 05:20:43 PM · #22 |
I'd recognize it anywhere.
It's Fred! |
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08/31/2017 05:05:04 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao: I got this answer from a deniable source:
"I'll take a wild stab at it. It's not easy with just a photo. In the old days I would actually employ taste and smell, sometimes. My gut reaction is Mylonite Schist, with some later fluids percolating through, leaving some calcite(?) veining along shear planes." |
Somehow I knew this thread would take a schist ;-) |
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08/31/2017 04:36:48 PM · #24 |
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08/31/2017 04:02:01 PM · #25 |
I got this answer from a deniable source:
"I'll take a wild stab at it. It's not easy with just a photo. In the old days I would actually employ taste and smell, sometimes. My gut reaction is Mylonite Schist, with some later fluids percolating through, leaving some calcite(?) veining along shear planes." |
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