Lens-Artists Challenge #295: Rock Your World
A post theme where I had a gazillion thoughts of what has rocked my world to share, the mountains I live in, fountains to share, statues and works of art, right down to the cobblestones in Edinburgh. Saw so many posts from those I follow that were of outstanding beauty and fabulous creativity, more ideas blossomed were to be stolen.
One of the things I wanted to share is something I found on my place that was rather exciting, more of that later *builds suspense but then I thought why not do others found here and there.
One of the bloggers, I won’t mention who, I don’t want to out a fellow rock nerd, talked about her rock nerdiness, I had to agree. Most of the following rocks have been found on my place or in one case up the road. I tried to put them in chronological order. What do you think? Get it right?
So without any further chatting. Let’s begin with a yellow and black shiny rock
These were an exciting find. Isn’t that blue just lovely. I have a good sized collection as they are so easy to find and are small mostly, easy to carry in a pocket.
I was working for a mining company who were looking at the viability of re-opening the Cangi copper mine. I was a gopher for the Geologist. One day I took one of my big prized blue rocks and asked him could he tell me what it was.
If I knew he was going to smash it with a hammer to find out I wouldn’t have asked. Now I can’t remember, as what I thought he said, doesn’t seem right.
Either it’s petrified whale or shark tooth or that’s how the rock formed and this tip broke off. I go for the former as the fantasy is more fun.
These are my exciting find. A indigenous hand axe and sharpening stone. They weren’t found together, so someone maybe had a hole in their dilly bag and I bet they would have been really upset at losing them. The axe is sharp enough to cut and fits in my hand comfortably. The underside of the sharpening stone is round and smooth.
Maybe they could also be used as flints to start a fire.
When the house dam was being constructed one of the layers that was dug out was mud rock. Mud rock is solid but soft. When it gets wet, it turns into a lovely fine white sticky clay. It was also in layers so in a few million more years, it would be shale probably.
I had to lift up layers and open the splits. In one of these I found this rounded shape.
When I saw this pink shape I thought I had found something. Would you have thought so as well?
A bit of excitement when I carefully cracked it open. A shell of some sort, maybe a crab like creature, maybe I broke the Trilobites tail? Any fossil freaks as well as a rock nerd đ who can help out?
Does a close up help?
Not on my place but found up the road on a ridge. This ridge is full of Petrified Wood. A neighbour told me when he found it and when we took the kids, it was rock nerd heaven. We had to bring a few home. This is the biggest.
The property was having an big truck access built to the road. I managed to see the blokes surveying to find out what they knew and where the track was going. I know of some historical artifacts along that ridge and was making sure they weren’t going anywhere near them.
The first few rocks are who knows how old
The hand axe could be anytime since humans walked through my place in the last sixty million years but are more likely within the last three hundred
Fossils in a layer about three to four metres under ground, somewhere in the tens of thousands?
Petrified Wood 140 to 180 million years?
Let’s get our Rocks Off
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