Create Content | Site Help | Site Map | Search
You are here » Home » Forum » General » Can anyone identify this strange looking rock?

Can anyone identify this strange looking rock?

  • Login to post a new forum topic.
hectikgronk

Rank:

Contact:
Email user

Can anyone identify this strange looking rock?
Submitted by hectikgronk on Wed, 01/08/2014 - 09:37.

Found in newzealand forest. dark green with white spots.   

 

http://i.imgur.com/WJXupRp.jpg

Gus Horsley

Rank:

Contact:
Email user

It is what is generically
Wed, 01/08/2014 - 12:37

It is what is generically described as a puddingstone, for obvious reasons.  However, the actual rock is more difficult to identify.  It could be a conglomerate and therefore sedimentary or it could be igneous with a matrix of peridotite and phenocrysts of olivine.

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.