I collect Meteorites (and maybe a couple rocks here and there)

[refamat]

And I may have a fossil or two. But! I have a good excuse, I have a degree in geology. Anyone else like rocks?

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I have a small collection of rocks. An awesome BYCer sent me some petrified wood and it is my favorite in my collection. I also have an ammonite necklace that I love and wear often

 

[ES Emus]

I have a large fossil collection...

 

[refamat]

I have a large fossil collection...

Sounds great. My fossil collection isn't big, I have some crinoids I collected and a piece of stigmaria I found while working in east Kentucky.
I also have some bone pieces I bought off o ebay to do thin sections of.

 

[yinepu]

I have one I need identified.. it's a good sized chunk.. aqua green and translucent (almost like glass or obsidian).. with white roundish inclusions? in it...

It was given to me several years ago.. and it used to have a sticker on it stating where it was found.. as I recall it said it was from a cave in Kentucky...

Any ideas?

 

[ES Emus]

Sounds great. My fossil collection isn't big, I have some crinoids I collected and a piece of stigmaria I found while working in east Kentucky.
I also have some bone pieces I bought off o ebay to do thin sections of.

I have 50 or so Megalodon (shark) teeth to 6.49 inches, lots of Green River Forrmation Fish, ammonites, trilobites, several dinosaur teeth, dino tracks, and a dino egg, local fossil crabs, mammoth and mastodon teeth, a walrus task, and numerous others. I will try to post a picture at some point...

 

[refamat]

I have one I need identified.. it's a good sized chunk.. aqua green and translucent (almost like glass or obsidian).. with white roundish inclusions? in it...

It was given to me several years ago.. and it used to have a sticker on it stating where it was found.. as I recall it said it was from a cave in Kentucky...

Any ideas?





To be sure, you will want to test this, which is easy. Although, people think geologists are crazy, you can taste the rock. If it has a funny salty taste, this could be fluorite with calcium inclusions. If there is no taste at all and feels like glass, then you have a piece of slag with prob boron flux globs in it.
Another test is fluorite is rather soft compared to glass and would or should be able to be scratched by a knife blade, but a penny would smear on it and not scratch it. If a knife will not scratch it, it's more likely to be glass.
Either case, it's a very interesting piece!

 

[yinepu]

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Thanks, I'll have to try that and let you know!

 

[Drumlogic]

this is my meteorite collection so far. I do have a 50lb Campo but the glass shelf won't hold it. I will try and get a picture of it soon.

 

[Drumlogic]

here are a few of my fossils. I have a very small collection. I am not an expert on fossils and am still learning, so I only buy what I know to be real. It limits me but I'm learning.