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I once found a piece of quartz
If anyone wants to watch me polish my septarian nodules, we can take this to PM or the Fapout sub forum
I believe you. I’m not sure why, but I do.
If you take me to Israel someday, I’ll bring you to Arkansas and we can go dig up all the quartz crystals you want. You could make a fortune!
This is a subject that I could get more into, I think.
I have to get a wedding ring next year. Earlier this year I bought the missus a labradorite engagement ring as that's her favourite stone. But I don't think I'll get a wedding ring with a stone. I'll get one with meteorite and dinosaur bone.
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I have to get a wedding ring next year. Earlier this year I bought the missus a labradorite engagement ring as that's her favourite stone. But I don't think I'll get a wedding ring with a stone. I'll get one with meteorite and dinosaur bone.
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I have a giant rock tumbler.
It doubles as a chemical mixer for making pyro stars, as soon as I spray the cement out.
Same
Just north of where I worked was a town called quartzite. Guess what they had lots of? Also it was very strange, the town sign had camel's on it. But there's a story to that. Apparently many years ago the army purchased a bunch of camels to use as an alternative to horses. But then they decided they were shite and sent all the camel's down to live in the Arizona desert until they all died happily ever after.
I'm very into amateur astronomy- deep sky astronomy.
Local, planetary astronomy isn't my thing, you have to know more geology than I do.
Watching the Mars missions has been great, but it's more exciting for geologists.
I like volcanic rocks and how they're formed. I have a geode, and won't look it up because lazy but IIRC they are lava formations.
Local, planetary astronomy isn't my thing, you have to know more geology than I do.
Watching the Mars missions has been great, but it's more exciting for geologists.
I like volcanic rocks and how they're formed. I have a geode, and won't look it up because lazy but IIRC they are lava formations.
I live in Michigan, and we have some great geological history with the Great Lakes and all. I have a few Petoskey stones. Crazy to think the impressions are of creatures that lived millions of years ago.
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Another time, I found some gneiss. It was niiiice
There are cliffs I used to go to when living in Maryland, you can find megashark (megalodon?) teeth there. Big as your hand.
I never found one in three tries. ☹
My son is obsessed with dinosaurs, and he is actually quite sharp with paleontology for an 8 year old. I took paleo classes in college, and I have to study more now just to keep up with him haha. It's pretty cool though, he just devours books on dinosaurs so I just keep feeding them to him.
So now every birthday or holiday as one of his gifts I will get him a fossil. For his most recent birthday he got a section of a mosasaurus jaw (upper and lower), he was stoked! I had looked at a megalodon tooth for him, but the one I saw for sale was almost $400.
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So your son isn’t worth $400?!? Some things you just can’t put a price on. Cheapskates like you make me sick.
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In volcanic rocks, geodes form in pockets that were filled with trapped gas/air when it cooled and solidified into rock. And then the void is subsequently filled in with a secondary mineral.
But they can also form in sedimentary rocks. Instead of gas bubble, sedimentary rock voids are from animal burrows, tree root balls, fossils, or other types of nodules that have dissolved away and left a pocket. And then similarly, the void is then filled with a secondary mineral.
Dude, I thought you'd be more understanding. $400 is like two months of my salary! I still need to feed him and shit, jeesh.
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You are a rich fancy pants geologist, not a humble working man like me. You can’t fool me!
I tell ya man, I should have went after oil like some of my peers did. There is a lot more money there than in groundwater. But I'm playing the long game, water is getting more precious.
One of my peers that went the oil route and graduated at the same time as me, told me how much he gets for his annual bonuses. I literally almost shit my pants. But I never wanted to, or thought I could stomach living in Houston (sorry, no offense @Splinty). I'm in it for the passion, not the dollars
Here's a pic of a book I got from the Metropolitan Museum of Awesome, in 1977. I was like your boy is, into Dinosaurs.
That book was greatly outdated ten years later and a lot of the information would need changing to fit current understanding.
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One of my peers that went the oil route and graduated at the same time as me, told me how much he gets for his annual bonuses. I literally almost shit my pants. But I never wanted to, or thought I could stomach living in Houston (sorry, no offense @@Splinty). I'm in it for the passion, not the dollars
We bout the dollars over here.