Interesting Geological Find

[Monster]

Too funny, but the correct answer is neither.

[oldsman496]

I don't know. but aren't Corals actually animals which create their own external "limestone' shell? and that is what fossilizes into rock coral?

[Monster]

Almost .. corals are marine invertebrates that live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps, which secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.

[oletrux4evr]

It's obvious to me that we need a Science Board.

[pdub]

It's obvious to me that we need a Science Board.

I Google imaged Science Board.

[oletrux4evr]

I Google imaged Science Board.

That's cool, but I meant a discussion board....like General Discussion, HRPT, Tech, etc. Seems like we get a lot of 'scientific' subjects lately.

[oldsman496]

Limestone is Calcium Carbonate...isn't it?.....we need a scientist...... oh..... thats Brain Coral, alive and sporing.

[DanStokes]

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Limestone is Calcium Carbonate...isn't it?.....we need a scientist...... oh..... thats Brain Coral, alive and sporing.[/QUOTE]

I'm too old to spore much these days.

Dan

[dave.g.in.gansevoort]

Signs of extra terrestrial life. Don't put it in your microwave, it will come back to life!

[Thumpin455]

Geology is fun, you can find all sorts of things in the ground.. like ocean fossils in Nebraska, and things like this https://ashfall.unl.edu. In 10,000+ years when someone or something unearths everything buried by the next Yellowstone Caldera eruption they'll find some crazy stuff. Here in northern Michigan I live on the top of an extremely old mountain range that was worn down by glaciers. We have a strange mix of rock in the lake, from sandstone to granite, and things called yooperlites that glow under a black light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQnzUaTAXGc We have an extinct volcano right next to Marquette, they call it black rocks. When I walked across it the first time it was obvious to me what it was, I am kinda into that stuff. Finding a chunk of coral here would be cool, but mostly its sandstone from when the lake was much higher than it is now. Did you know that farther down is a massive salt deposit here? Its under the entire lower peninsula.

It sounds like ya found someone's stash Pdub.. a kid's buried treasure.

[pdub]

It sounds like ya found someone's stash Pdub.. a kid's buried treasure.

That's what I figure too. But in the meantime the fossilized coral piece is on the fireplace mantle. In the unlikely rare even that a stranger comes in the house and oogles over it, I'll say that I was scuba diving off of my private yacht in the Great Cayman Islands. I was in 75 feet of water running one of those sand sucking chugga hoses to uncover a perfectly preserved giant mastadon skeleton I had discovered on an earlier dive. The skeleton turned out to be a sunken outhouse from an offshore construction project and I found the coral piece while I was cleaning the hose filter.