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You might hire a geologist with a degree, but the best geologists are fascinated by the geology, not the money.
To identify strange rocks, minerals, or fossils, place the samples in the middle of the table, invite the geologist to a family dinner, hand them a drink, and answer any questions they ask you. The conversation, and the stories you will hear, will be worth more than money can buy.
To identify strange rocks, minerals, or fossils, place the samples in the middle of the table, invite the geologist to a family dinner, hand them a drink, and answer any questions they ask you. The conversation, and the stories you will hear, will be worth more than money can buy.
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Sounds like me and my fish friends.Bandersnatch said:
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Golly! You learn all kinda things in this forum. Now I know how to handle the geologists in my life.Baluncore said:
I actually do know a couple.
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BillTre said:
When it comes to rocks that may be meteorites, I get asked this question a dozen times a day.
I find that most people 75% or so hate being told that their "precious" rock is just an Earth rock
and not a meteorite.
With over 450 meteorite samples ( some approx. 400 different meteorites) in my collection,
There's only a few oddball ones that I cannot look at and definitively say Yes or No to it
being a meteorite
We were all told, for many years, that meteorites didnt have obvious gas bubble holes (vesicles) in them.
But over the last several years, that has proven to be wrong as there has been found several meteorites
with obvious vesicles in them. One of these being Jikharra 001, from Ajdabiya, Libya.
I added a large slice, 370grams, of this to my collection late last year.
It's been classified as a eucrite melt breccia, one of the H.E.D. group of achondrites with asteroid 4
Vesta origins.
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Dave