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They appear to be slag of
Thu, 10/04/2012 - 11:12They appear to be slag of some description and therefore most likely to be man-made rather than extraterrestrial in origin. However, they could be quite recent and resemble the possible damaged interior of a former pottery kiln as there appears to be bits of fire brick adhering to them.
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Very descreptive Dawn.
Thu, 10/04/2012 - 19:34Very descreptive Dawn. Well done! We usually get something like 'wots this then?' so your prose are a pleasure to read.
Unfortnately I think the same as Gus. There may not be any 'industry' there now to produce furness slag, but there may have been in the distant pass. These things are very quickly forgotten.
For instance a by-pass was put in round the village I live in. I found a lot of fossils (mainly ammonites) and some perfect diamond shape crystals of gypsum.
Talking to an old boy in the village he told me he and his mates had found the same during WW2 as a kid, when a German bomber unloaded a single bomb which breached the Kennet & Avon Canal, causing the water to shush the topsoil away and exposing the fossils and crystals. Mick said he had forgotten all about it for 70 odd years, and it would have been totally forgotten had I not shown him what I found.
John
“Civilisation exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” - Will Durant
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Cinder coal?
Fri, 10/05/2012 - 00:19When I was a child, I grew up on a ranch and we heated our house with a coal burning furnace. Every so often, we would find something similar to what you have in your pictures amongst the coal. My parents called it cinder coal. My job was to toss it whenever I found it. It didn't burn well or something.
Edit : I think we also called them "clinkers"
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Please help identify rock
Submitted by dawnrichfield38 on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 00:09.Hi! I stumbled upon this site in my search to try and identify these rocks I find. They appear in places that they "were not" previously. I found one or two when I was real little and someone told me they were shooting stars! haha
I know that may not be true now but what are they??? I live in the united states, in Massachusetts near the east coast, right on the Atlantic ocean. There are no Furnace mills here, no volcanos and no mountains, or places where they are blowing up sides of mountains, etc. The rocks I find are very porous and seem to have holes as if they burned up some how.
This particular one has not much color, but most I find have purple. I noticed that some have a very small magnetic reaction and some have none at all. I am baffled. I have been searching for moths with no luck.
Anyone on your end of the world able to help identify?? I would greatly appreciate it. thanks