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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 9:42 am 
When it comes to crystals, most folks don't karat all, unless they are precious. But this is very cool and informative, thank you.

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 9:56 am 
Brushbuffalo wrote:
Without being there or seeing more photos my educated guess is those are small, very uniform contraction columns in a deformed bed such that the columns are lying on their long axis.
That's fascinating. I've seen columnar basalt before at Frenchman Coulee and remember being struck by how the columns were nice neat polygonal shapes with perfectly flat faces. Very cool how such things can form in nature. By the way, Aaron got a photo that better shows the scale of that outcrop on Mystery:
Mount Mystery summit. Photo by Aaron Wilson.
Mount Mystery summit. Photo by Aaron Wilson.
He also got a photo of some interesting rock on nearby Hal Foss Peak:
Hal Foss Choss. Photo by Aaron Wilson.
Hal Foss Choss. Photo by Aaron Wilson.
And speaking of Olympic Mountain pillow basalt, am I correct in assuming that's what this is? Taken near the summit of Mount Constance:
Constance rock. Pillow basalt in the light on the left side of the picture?
Constance rock. Pillow basalt in the light on the left side of the picture?
This is a very cool thread, thanks Brushbuffalo!

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 10:04 am 
Kim Brown wrote:
I used to collect pretty rocks and stones; I had 'em in vases and on my windowsill. But then I learned that a rocks job on earth is to make it to the nearest trench, where it can morph and become another rock. So I felt sorry for the rocks and stones and I had been holding in captivity.
If anything, rocks are patient. I don't imagine that they mind so much what are intrinsically temporary changes of scenery. (Especially the ones that land glamorous roles in Japanese gardens.) As far as windowsill clutter, pretty rocks no longer cut it. I became a rock-snob and only bring home agates and petrified wood.
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Should I post a pic of my agate collection? It is has almost 22,000 agates in it. hockeygrin.gif winksmile.gif I know I'ma bit crazy.gif about finding them.
Jeepers! I ain't tellin' you about any more sekrit beaches! wink.gif I heard a story about an elderly lady that had collected "jars and jars" of agates living on the beach. Wanting others to have the pleasure of finding them all over again, she left instructions upon her passing that they be rowed out to the center of the bay so they could begin the journey back to the shore. rolleyes.gif

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 11:14 am 
Jake Robinson wrote:
He also got a photo of some interesting rock on nearby Hal Foss Peak:
Hal Foss Choss. Photo by Aaron Wilson.
Hal Foss Choss. Photo by Aaron Wilson.
I've seen similar shattered rock in other places, e.g., Bailey Range ridgetop N of Bear Pass. I surmised (perhaps incorrectly) that it was some sort of frost-shattered metamorphic rock, maybe schist

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 2:04 pm 
the thread rocks. keep them coming!

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 2:51 pm 
Thanks Rock Star! Sorry, my words dissappeared. And I can't find the natural pics I have. Not sure how the rocks feel about being part of my landscape, but they look content. I think if they try to escape, IL just let them go though. Location. East side Stevens pass. Backside of ski Hill. Tye mill road. The creek on the immediate West of ' the burn '. Creek runs from the road, to a small waterfall just above the power lines.( can't find photo) Creek is entirely boulders of the swirly patterned rock. Tried to find a photo of the water, as it's exposed bedrock.. Have also found garnets not to far from there, embedded like the rock near grizzly peak.

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 3:42 pm 
Jake Robinson wrote:
the columns were nice neat polygonal shapes with perfectly flat faces
In your original image, look toward the right third and you can see several polygonal surfaces facing right. Furthering the hypothesis of these forms being contraction columns, these would be the ends of columns whose long axis is horizontal. Mount Hal Foss rock looks like slate. It is common especially in slate for it to break into these pencil-like splinters. Your final picture, Jake, shows good pillows from a distance. Yes, that part of the Olympics has got 'em! They form by fluid lava erupting either under deepish water or flowing on land into water. There are good videos available showing their formation live.

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 3:44 pm 
Amazing pillows, ale_ capone. Kilauea? Looking closer, it tricked me! biggrin.gif Those are individual cobbles or boulders that as you explain are now held captive in your yard with no immediate prospects for escaping. Can't tell size, which distinguishes cobble from boulder.Then I read your note and you confirm it. That's a rock I would want to pick up and handle to identify with total confidence, but I believe the weird boulder/cobble is graphitic mica schist that was mechanically-weathered as part of the stream's bedload. Google 'schist' for images. Note the 'stripes', a characteristic of schist due to foliation. That texture, which looks like sedimentary layering, is due to linear or platy minerals (like biotite mica) that became oriented due to directed ( unbalanced) pressure during metamorphism in the crust. A further clue is there is an extensive area of exposed schist in that region from which these clasts could be derived.

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 4:28 pm 
Ha. Sorry, I didn't read the add something for scale disclosure. That particular one is a baby boulder, about the size of a soccer ball. There is a maple leaf, and blue fescue grass blades on the sides. In the creek, they range from pebbles, to immovable by two men.. Always found them a bit.strange because most everything else is more granite like in that area. Still combing old photos for the waterfall. I'd feel silly if put or somebody just dumped them there. Unfortunately, I can't lift more then ten pounds for the next month, or I'd bring it to the social. wink.gif

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 6:15 pm 
Adam (Gimpilator) wanted me to share this on his behalf. He took it on Bare Mountain in Nevada (36.842643, -116.674074).
Shell fossils in Bare Mountain rock
Shell fossils in Bare Mountain rock

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 7:29 pm 
Jake and Adam, Good scale, a bit out of focus.. edit actually perfectly sharp focus. My initial view was with my tablet being weird dizzy.gif From the fragments I see, these are some kind of bivalve, such as a clam or brachiopod. Unfortunately, I'm a poor paleontologist. A good one would give you the genus and species. Rock is almost certainly limestone.

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PostWed Nov 22, 2017 10:14 pm 
Thanks Doug. Jake told me there was a rock topic going on. What a fun idea! I asked him to post for me because I'm without a real computer for awhile and can't do much with this darn phone.

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PostThu Nov 23, 2017 10:58 am 
Great idea! up.gif

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PostThu Nov 23, 2017 11:21 pm 
radka wrote:
Oh, I have one for you! I found this gem at the saddle of Blackcap in the Pasayten last year. I carried it to the summit and put it on the top of the summit cairn - it may still be there.
Radka, That greenish rock you posted looks to be Fluorite. It is present in the quartz porphyry dikes of the area. There were even some claims staked on Monument Peak years ago to mine the stuff, but nothing ever came of it. These small deposits are all over that area, with some many prominent ones on Dot Mountain. Great find!

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