GeologyRockshelp identifying a rock!
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Oh that link is broke! Here
Tue, 03/06/2012 - 15:45Oh that link is broke! Here it is!
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/804/42928635199876062531468.jpg/
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Welcome to GR Jac-boj. I'm
Tue, 03/06/2012 - 23:46Welcome to GR Jac-boj.
I'm sorry, but I can't identify it from that picture. It simply isn't detailed enough. Can you take some more please, perhaps from different sides. Keep the camera very still (so the image is sharp) as it looks like there might be crystals in there and I can hopefully identify from those.
On the other hand when Gus logs on he might know what it is immediately.
We shall look forward to more pictures
John
“Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” - Will Durant
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I think it could be a type
Mon, 03/12/2012 - 07:47I think it could be a type of furnace slag but I've also got a niggling feeling in the back of my (somehwat dodgy) memory that it could be something else. Any ideas where it came from? Does it have a sort of roughly glassy texture?
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Hi Gus. Yes the texture is
Mon, 03/12/2012 - 08:27Hi Gus.
Yes the texture is quite glassy and parts of it reflect the light like glass would.
The rock was found in the child's garden when they dug up an old an old paving slab. The house is most likely about 60 years old (as we live in a new town) and i would assume it had been there buried in the Essex clay for all of that time. As for its origins before the building of the house i have no idea.
That is all the information i have on it, hope that helps!
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You said you are in Essex.
Mon, 03/12/2012 - 09:43You said you are in Essex. Are you in Colchester? I saw a programme not long ago about how Boudicca put a match to Colchester complete with the imcumbent Roman legions. Many rocks exhibit this redness (iron?) when placed next to extreme heat. The first time I went to Vallis Vale and Tedbury Camp in Somerset I pondered over the 'red limestones' and had to have it pointed out to me that kids, vagrants and hippies regularly have fires in that area.
If you are not in Colchester itself, are you in a town on which she may have practiced her pyrotechnical skills?
John
PS It didn't half make the Romans cross!
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How i would love to link our
Mon, 03/12/2012 - 13:51How i would love to link our rock to the Boudiccan revolt! But alas we live in Basildon. I am sure there are plenty of pyromaniacs mind you!
Basildon is a new town built about 60 years ago, but its' history starts around Saxon/Norman times. It spent most of its existence as a group of tiny farming communities.
Am i right in thinking that in some forms of farming large fires can be set? Or perhaps it is some left over from a furnace, some small scale industry or metal work. Perhaps that would explain that?
If the rock has been affected by fire would that mean that it is likely to be some kind Metamorphic rock? (Thats as far as my afformentioned A-level gets me haha)
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help identifying a rock!
Submitted by jac_boj on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 12:56.Hello all I am a primary school teacher and one of my kids has brought in an interesting rock. She asked me to identify it and my a-level in geography is of little help haha! Do we have any geology experts who could help make this 9 year old girls day? http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/429286_3519987606253_1468924129_3350821_138867...