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Offline Jimbob

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Rock ID please?
« on: June 15, 2012, 01:10:20 pm »
This was found in the hills around Concord, CA.  Its pretty rough and grainy,  I tried to pick up a hammer stone to try and see how it works but it broke the hammer stone. I did get some flakes off of it though.
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Offline Tower

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Re: Rock ID please?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2012, 10:34:45 pm »
Whew! That looks like some tough stuff. Can't wait to see what you can do with it.
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Offline cowboy

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Re: Rock ID please?
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2012, 08:45:09 am »
Kinda resembles some stuff i found in CO. Really quartzy and tough. Wonder if heat would affect it, hmm..
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Offline YosemiteBen

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Re: Rock ID please?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2012, 01:29:21 pm »
JimBob - You made it out to concord and didn't come visit me in Yosemite - I am verily crushed!  With the layering in that rock it lloks like a metamorphic, schist perhaps otherwise my thought initially was diorite, a very dark small crystal form of granite.
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Offline Jimbob

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Re: Rock ID please?
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2012, 03:15:40 pm »
Sorry Ben, I am out here with the Army Reserve.  They flew us out here from NC and havent had much free time.  We have been workin at the old naval base out here.  I would have loved to go to Yosemite!  Thanks for the help with the ID though.
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Offline Jimbob

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Re: Rock ID please?
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2012, 03:17:46 pm »
Cowboy, I think Ill take some down to my father in laws fire pit one day and try to put some heat on it.  Ill let you know how that goes.
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Offline warhawk

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Re: Rock ID please?
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2012, 11:30:31 am »
it looks like slate. but im not sure, hey when will you be back this way?
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Offline Jimbob

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Re: Rock ID please?
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2012, 08:07:22 pm »
Warhawk, I come back to work on the 20th.
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