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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?


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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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Originally Posted by LJBass
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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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Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Does it weigh less than a duck?


Yes, it must be a witch

Originally Posted by AZmark
Looks like cookies and rootbeer to me.


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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.

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Originally Posted by LJBass
Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad
Does it weigh less than a duck?


Yes, it must be a witch

Originally Posted by AZmark
Looks like cookies and rootbeer to me.


Talking Bull at the gun shop. Coffee and Molassis cookies is the staple

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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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Originally Posted by slumlord
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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Originally Posted by LJBass
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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Boeing bomb?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_tOoLDFmltg

Do you see a peanut?

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