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Any geologists in the house? - PeterB - 01-14-2013
What type of stone is this?:
1st pic
2nd pic
Edit: BW warning, sorry for the ultra-huge images, still learning imgur.
Re: Any geologists in the house? - space-time - 01-14-2013
Pyramid
Re: Any geologists in the house? - SDGuy - 01-14-2013
space-time wrote:
Pyramid
:agree:
Re: Any geologists in the house? - dad@home - 01-14-2013
I'm no geologist but it looks a lot like jasper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper
I have a belt buckle with a nice example in the middle that came from the Owyhee Mountains in southern Idaho.
John
Re: Any geologists in the house? - Speedy - 01-14-2013
SDGuy wrote:
[quote=space-time]
Pyramid
:agree:
Yes. Not an uncommon mineral. Some very large examples can be found in Egypt.
Re: Any geologists in the house? - PeterB - 01-14-2013
dad@home wrote:
I'm no geologist but it looks a lot like jasper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper
I have a belt buckle with a nice example in the middle that came from the Owyhee Mountains in southern Idaho.
John
I thought it might be jasper too, just hadn't seen anything that looked exactly like this. It's too bad for the chip at the top.
Re: Any geologists in the house? - Stephanie - 01-14-2013
Look on ebay for jasper pyramid - there was one example that looked similar to yours.
Re: Any geologists in the house? - freeradical - 01-14-2013
I think it's used to make bowling balls.
Re: Any geologists in the house? - Speedy - 01-14-2013
freeradical wrote:
I think it's used to make bowling balls.
Our bowling alleys use round balks. I suppose a pyramidal shaped bowling ball would work on a well waxed alley.
Re: Any geologists in the house? - sekker - 01-14-2013
Speedy wrote:
[quote=SDGuy]
[quote=space-time]
Pyramid
:agree:
Yes. Not an uncommon mineral. Some very large examples can be found in Egypt.
A large number of human-made ones can be found on Wall St USA.