[meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there

Thu Apr 7 11:19:16 EDT 2005

Dear Bob, Graham,  and list;
I should entitle this thread "treatise on common colored stone".
Throughout my rock involved history, I have come to the  conclusion that 
picking up colored Earthly trinkets is extremely healthy for our 
physics.   From the inquisitive child-like mind, we note the different 
and unusual.  We strive to be different and in that, collect the 
different.  The mind of the collector, whether young and highly 
inquisitive, or mature and studious all tend to look for the odd, the 
different, the "non-normal".  This thread of  daring has been the spark 
to inventors in our culture, that all apples are red, what's with the 
green one symbolism.
As we evolve to master scientists in our own amateur way, we all must 
not forget the pretty rock, the odd rocks that don't fit the mold, the 
mini cooper of the mineral world if you will as collecting non common 
specimens is a learning process for the mind.  Growing out from the 
norm, being meteorites in our minds eye, is added to by the excitement 
of an unusual specimen of a different nature.
It truly adds to our world of appreciation to hastily grab up that odd 
rock as if we were all self reserved to only collecting the norm, it 
would be a very boring and unstimulating world in deed.  
It is always better to arrive home with special, unusual rocks than to 
return home empty handed from a day of searching for manna from heaven 
and to have arrive a little short with an empty sack.

Treatise your rocks with compassion!

Dave Freeman
Rock Springs, WY

Graham Christens wrote:

> Brother Bob, that is a fine specimen of probably exactly what I have 
> and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one picking up every odd coloured 
> rock and dragging it home. Thanks for showing that.
>
>> "And here is an "in-situ" image showing where I found my green rock"
>
>
> Haha! If only!
>
> I can probably borrow someone's grinder maybe tomorrow or dig though 
> some boxes and find my dremel tool to cut off a piece. I agree that 
> it's hard to tell with a rough stone like that. Later this month a 
> professor of martian geology at the University of Alberta is taking me 
> on a tour of the meteorite collection there so I will take this rock 
> along when I go and see what he thinks as well.
>
>> "Wouldn't I be emabarassed if I was wrong, and my "wrong" wasn't?"
>
>
> Nope, I would imagine that you would be too busy being ecstatic about 
> pulling off the impossible...again!
>
> Oh well, all is not lost. I DID find a chunk of garnet today :-) (at 
> least I think that's what it is)
> http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter/garnet.jpg
>
> Seeing as how it's 7 AM, I think it's about time I went to bed.
> Goodnight all and happy hunting!
>
> Green rock picker-upper 4 life,
> Graham
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Graham Christensen
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>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Verish" 
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology experts out there
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>> Hello Brother Graham and List,
>>
>> http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/mars-rocks/2mars1not.jpg
>>
>> As you can tell from the above image, Brother Graham
>> and I belong to the same fraternity - The Fraternal
>> Order of Green Rock Picker-Uppers.
>>
>> And here is an "in-situ" image showing where I found
>> my green rock:
>>
>> http://marzmeteorite.tripod.com/mars-rocks/MRF04996.jpg
>>
>> Actually, Graham, my story is much shorter than yours.
>> I found my little shergo-not just last week, and only
>> a few miles from my backyard.  It was still sitting on
>> top of my monitor when I read your message and saw
>> your great looking image.  It prompted me to share my
>> image with you.  And, as in your image, I placed a
>> small slice of DaG 476 in front of my Mars-wannabe.
>> For added effect, I placed a larger slice of the DaG
>> 670 stone to the right of my m-wrong.
>>
>> As a rule, I don't "hazard a guess" about a rock-type
>> based solely on an image.  Too many times I've had to
>> change my opinion about a rock-type after examining a
>> cut surface.  So, if you show me the inside of your
>> rock, I'll show you the inside of my rock!   ;-)
>>
>> It's true.  I haven't cut my little rock, yet.  And to
>> be truthful, I haven't had it examined by an "expert",
>> so I can't say with 100% certainty that my rock is a
>> "shergo-not".
>>
>> Wouldn't I be emabarassed if I was wrong, and my
>> "wrong" wasn't?
>>
>> Bob V.
>>
>> --------------- Original Message ----------------
>>
>> [meteorite-list] What's this? -for the geology
>> experts out there
>> Graham Christensen voltage at telus.net
>> Thu Apr 7 05:21:16 EDT 2005
>>
>>
>> Hello list
>>
>> I've had this rock sitting on my kitchen table since
>> last year when I picked it up along the side of the
>> road while out for a walk. It is a fairly smooth
>> green rock with black bits in it and it looks somewhat
>> like my DAG 476
>> shergottite but it's a slightly lighter shade of
>> green. I have yet to grind an end off to see what the
>> inside looks like but there are a couple chips
>> out of it and it looks about the same on the inside
>> with the green part being fine grained and the black
>> bits are individual crystals. I doubt that it is
>> meteoritic (there is no trace of fusion crust) but I
>> was wondering if it might be similar to a shergottite
>> but of terrestrial origin.
>>
>> Here is a pic of it:
>> http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter/dag476andunidentified.jpg
>> The small slice in the forground is my DAG 476 and the
>> big rock is of course the rock in question.
>>
>> I have been collecting rocks on and off in this area
>> since I was a kid and I haven't seen anything like it
>> but that doesn't mean much. I live in Alberta, Canada,
>> where most of the rocks you find lying on the ground
>> were brought down from various locations by the
>> glaciers of the last ice age so it's kind of a potluck
>> dinner of geology up here.
>>
>> I won't get my hopes up, but I certainly wouldn't mind
>> copying Bob Verish
>> and finding out I've been sitting on a mars meteorite
>> for a year!! :-)
>>
>> Any comments are greatly appreciated
>> Graham
>>
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