Oops! I meant to update this thread to let everyone know about your
answer, Ann.
I am inclined to agree with her. It makes perfect sense.
Still, I've been doing a lot of Googling on alchemy the past few days,
and I think I just might be able to turn it into something a little more
exciting.
-- Walt
On 11/8/2012 10:19 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
Dave -
I think it's slag - not puddingstone -
Given it's provence.. also, puddingstone ain't so metallic and note the
oozing of the forms.
I had written Walt off-list actually and he mentioned there had been
mutitions factory in the area during WWII.
ann
(Geology was my minor in college - and then there was that Boston
Trivia book.)
On 11/6/2012 01:21, David Parsons wrote:
Looks like puddingstone. Either an erratic from a glacier, or from
the layer of puddingstone comglomerate in your area.
It's a sedimentary rock that forms when pebbles and sand cement
together near or under water.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote:
A friend of mine found this a few inches below the ground's surface
by a
tree in his yard:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157631938645371/
It's somewhere between the size of a golf ball and a tennis ball and
weighs
about 1.5 - 2 lbs (maybe a little more) and gives the impression of
being
metallic, but doesn't appear to have much iron in it, as a magnet
doesn't
stick to it.
Someone else thought it might be a geode, but didn't know for sure
-- the
heft made him think it probably isn't. So, I figured I'd ask all the
smarties in PDML if they had any thoughts.
Anything?
Thanks!
-- Walt
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