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I was cutting a trench for a waterline, this thing came rolling out. Kinda grey from the clay when it came up. I thought I had an honest cannonball. Was pretty excited. Do you guys think it might be a Geode, any way to tell without breaking it?
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Could be a limestone concretion, aka chert nodule
Depends on the geology of your area.
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Does it weigh less than a duck?
I am MAGA.
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But, it does have a lot of extrnenal crystallization.
Get a masonry saw and slice it in half
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Looks like cookies and rootbeer to me.
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I was cutting a trench for a waterline, this thing came rolling out. Kinda grey from the clay when it came up. I thought I had an honest cannonball. Was pretty excited. Do you guys think it might be a Geode, any way to tell without breaking it? It's a geode. Until you break it. Got a rock store local, they will saw it in half for $20. Pot luck on the guts.
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I don’t know what it is but it wouldn’t stop me from making up a hell of a lie about it to impress chicks
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Does it weigh less than a duck? Yes, it must be a witch Looks like cookies and rootbeer to me. Talking Bull at the gun shop. Coffee and Molassis cookies is the staple But, it does have a lot of extrnenal crystallization.
Get a masonry saw and slice it in half Masonry saw huh?
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LOL
summer interning, I had a guy walk into the geosciences dept, wanted to know if we thought what he had was a meteorite.
I went and grabbed our minerology PhD, we got him back outside, he was a little ‘fruity’
She asked if she could chip it little off with a rock hammer. He agreed.
She wailed on it once, pulverized it like chalk, look on his face was priceless. Scooped it up and said, nope, just a rock. Thanks for stopping by.
hahaha
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Does it weigh less than a duck? Yes, it must be a witch Looks like cookies and rootbeer to me. Talking Bull at the gun shop. Coffee and Molassis cookies is the staple But, it does have a lot of extrnenal crystallization.
Get a masonry saw and slice it in half Masonry saw huh? Yup, if it’s a limestone concretion, it’ll zip right through. $4 blade If it’s more up on the moh’s scale, then he moves up to to a $38 diamond tile blade.
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Scientific method, start with a $4 hypothesis
You good with that?
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It looks like the geodes we found in CO and broke a few open to reveal a hollow center with pink-purple crystals inside. Hollow areas of soil can form them but most are created as a result of volcanic activity.
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Knowing that i dont know [bleep] about rocks... Wouldnt a meteorite be magnetic? Already had an oldtime at the shop hit it with a magnet. Been riding in the back of the truck for a year. Just remembered it was in the bucket tonight while we were talking.
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There’s a diamond mine, deposited in Arkansas, ancient activity. Could be geode
If that part of Missouri is near that part of ark
Possible more
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Scientific method, start with a $4 hypothesis
You good with that? Yeah, i'm pretty curious. The 38 wouldnt stop me. If I come up with a saw.
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Knowing that i dont know [bleep] about rocks... Wouldnt a meteorite be magnetic? Already had an oldtime at the shop hit it with a magnet. Been riding in the back of the truck for a year. Just remembered it was in the bucket tonight while we were talking. Lots are nickel and other non ferrous
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