Mohamed, May I suggest an explanation for your finding interesting rocks in an area you claim has none?
Over the past 40 years, I've spent a lot of time collecting "interesting" rocks during my travels around the western United States. While out hiking or hunting, I've got a habit of picking up just about anything that looks interesting or out of place. As the day wears on and my pack gets heavier, I often reevaluate the effort it takes to carry some of the rocks and their value to me. Many of them are often discarded along the trail many miles from where I picked them up. Here's an even better example. I have a good friend who collected a trailer full of coprolite specimens near Lake Powell (Utah) about 12 years ago. On his way home, one of the wheel hubs on his trailer broke while he was still on a rugged dirt road and about 50 miles away from the collection site. Not wanting someone to steal his coprolite while he went for repair parts, he hid his load of coprolite in a ravine a short distance off the road. Several days later, when he returned with the parts, he found someone had stolen his trailer. Now he had no way to haul away his precious cargo of coprolite. As far as both of us know, the pile of coprolite is still sitting in the ravine just waiting to be "discovered" by someone out walking in the area. Remember now, this pile of coprolite is 50 miles from the actual collection site and in a totally different geological area. Whoever finds it might jump to the conclusion that the site in the ravine is the actual place where it weathered out of the earth after 65 million year. Their ignorance could allow them to make an incorrect assumption. Who knows, they might even have a good enough imagination to decide they fell from the sky. There are a lot of different scenarios that can result in rocks being found in places where they normally shouldn't be. Many, like erosion, can be explained, but others cannot. Such is the case with your rocks. Just because you can't, or don't, understand how they got to where you found them, doesn't mean the only explanation is they fell out of the sky. I understand your enthusiasm. Please divert some of it into getting yourself educated about minerals and meteorites. Your time out in the field will become a lot more productive. Regards, John Gwilliam At 11:03 PM 2/2/02 +0400, DiamondMeteor wrote: >Is it not very strange that I find so many meteowrongs in the same place? >Some in the same meter square? In an area where no natural igneous rocks >exist? > >I dont blame you, one day you will discover the value of these whatever they >are. > >The sky is BIG, it can drop down anything. > >Take It Easy > >Mohamed >================================ > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list John Gwilliam Meteorites PO Box 26854 Tempe AZ 85285 http://www.meteoriteimpact.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
