Pete left me a link with these beautiful photos at the other end. Since I havent posted photos of my other rocks yet, I thought I would use his.
The top photo is Petes find from the Superior Hiking Trail, (Pete, Please correct me if I am wrong).
Now folks I am not a Geologist but I will give it my best. To make this alittle easier to understand, I will reference the rock by its number counting up from the bottom of the photo. And the row count is from the left. Wow this is complicated!
1. The Large Deep Red stone, #2 in the second row is Red Jasper.
2. The 2nd rock, 4th row appears to be Quartz. Which is also the crystal portion of rocks 4 in row 4 and 5.
3. The 4th & 5th rocks in the first row along with the 2nd rock in the 2nd row are Agate. The smaller ones at the top of the page could very well also be agate.
4. The largest Rock in the photo, upper right hand which appears to be white and green specked is Greenstone.
5. I believe the white stone at the top may be Quartzite or mudstone, but its hard to tell without knowing the texture/consistency of the rock.
6. I think the green rocks in row 3 must be quartz, I really have no clue what else they could be, anyone? Anyone? the darker ones may have a higher mineral content the the lighter colored stones.
In this next picture I believe I see some:Porphyry
Maybe some vesicular rhyolite and rhyolite
Green and Red Agate
Greenstone
See if you can find it.
Thats all I got for you folks my brain is fried.
5 comments:
My Rocks! I will bring them to Afton next weekend and we can drink beer and geek-out looking at them. :D Deal? Thanks for taking the time to figure out what some of them are!
Dana,
I love your journey into stones :) I too love stones, and need to make more time in my life to study them. I have one or two really cool books I have picked up that are sitting on my bookshelf not getting enough attention.
Have you any interest or delved into at all the healing properties of stones? It is really amazing and interesting. I carried some stones around with me while TTC and I have a worrystone that I carry around in my pocket sometimes...It has a smooth spot that my thumb fits into perfectly. It can be very calming and grounding to feel the smooth hardness of the stone in my hand.
Anyway, just wanted to pop in and say hi :) BTW, since Chaser's birthday I have made the commitment to spend a little more time on my photography...seeing your work makes me yearn to take more photos...I am starting to figure out a few more things with my camera. This fall I think I am going to start a project of taking and posting one picture every day for a year...Going to try to commit to that anyway!
Now that I left a novel on your blog, I will talk to you later!!
Stoner.
Sometimes I think you are such a dork and sometimes I just think you are cool. The rocks? I don't know yet! :)
Wow... who knew ROCKS would be the trigger to so many comments!
Red... I love your nerdiness. I have big rocks from around the country/world... they're in my mom's garden.. from all over. I don't know what they are though... they're just pretty... oh so pretty.
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