Post by fataldegree on Apr 29, 2014 20:41:53 GMT
It looks like this must be a pretty new forum. Hello to the moderator and other members!
I have always kinda picked up and collected rocks here and there. Not a serious or detailed interest by any means....just pick a pretty rock up while on a trip and take it home with me....that sort of involvement level. In the last year that interest has expanded. My mother and I started a greenhouse business and we had to have a section of her property excavated. It exposed ribbons of beach sand and clay, and seems to grow all sorts of weird rocks daily. Which has driven me a little rock-mad. Even more recently I have started inspecting them closer, and cutting them in halves, slices and rough cabochons. My other half has caught the bug too (though he may have had it before and I may have ignored it). So now we spend hours sifting through sand, picking at rock when we should be watering or cleaning things.
What is worse, is there isn't ANY information about the things that we are finding. So it is driving me completely bonkers trying to figure out what that colorful lump is that one of us pulled out of the ground. Most of them are probably just common "garbage"....but I would still like to know what they are. I think it would be cool to have a specimen collection of local Michigan rocks. A long-time rock hound friend of mine patiently looks at all my "treasures" and comments that I have a real diversity of specimens. Some have geode-like inclusions. Some look and feel like some type of agate but are formed different (?) and not the right color for Michigan. Some are completely puzzling but darn cool. I have even found some pretty little pudding stones and a few petosky.
And where might I live.....
.........Southern Michigan, in Albion. Not near any of the big lakes (or little ones). Out in the fields, on top of a sandbar.
I hope someone out there can help me identify some of my "treasures".
I have always kinda picked up and collected rocks here and there. Not a serious or detailed interest by any means....just pick a pretty rock up while on a trip and take it home with me....that sort of involvement level. In the last year that interest has expanded. My mother and I started a greenhouse business and we had to have a section of her property excavated. It exposed ribbons of beach sand and clay, and seems to grow all sorts of weird rocks daily. Which has driven me a little rock-mad. Even more recently I have started inspecting them closer, and cutting them in halves, slices and rough cabochons. My other half has caught the bug too (though he may have had it before and I may have ignored it). So now we spend hours sifting through sand, picking at rock when we should be watering or cleaning things.
What is worse, is there isn't ANY information about the things that we are finding. So it is driving me completely bonkers trying to figure out what that colorful lump is that one of us pulled out of the ground. Most of them are probably just common "garbage"....but I would still like to know what they are. I think it would be cool to have a specimen collection of local Michigan rocks. A long-time rock hound friend of mine patiently looks at all my "treasures" and comments that I have a real diversity of specimens. Some have geode-like inclusions. Some look and feel like some type of agate but are formed different (?) and not the right color for Michigan. Some are completely puzzling but darn cool. I have even found some pretty little pudding stones and a few petosky.
And where might I live.....
.........Southern Michigan, in Albion. Not near any of the big lakes (or little ones). Out in the fields, on top of a sandbar.I hope someone out there can help me identify some of my "treasures".
Sorry for being so late to reply. Sounds really nice, hope you can identify the rocks you are finding. I'm still learning about rocks myself. I mostly just collect rocks that I find interesting myself, but am trying to learn more. Maybe jasper for the agate like stones?