Hey everyone, newbie here
So I'm out hiking a lot in an area that supposedly has an amazing cave (yet to find it) and recently came across something I've never seen before. Thought I might ask you all for your thoughts on it. It may be nothing more than one of those strange things of nature but it doesn't hurt to ask right.
Stumped
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Hmmm don't know. Looks like someone busted it away with a hammer or something. Where are you hiking at?
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Hiking in the Winslow area mostly. It definitely seems to me like something someone has carved out but this is in the middle of nowhere. We're in an area that very few people go yet there have been several things we've come across that make no sense being there.
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It's hard to tell the size of it in the picture, how big is it? And velcome!
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I'm going to hazard a guess and say fossil collection. Possibly cephalopods of in the Winslow Formation from the Pennsylvanian era. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1 ... id=3739256
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Thanks for the link, that was interesting. I love learning new stuff about my hometown
Still don't really know what to make of it. I went back down there today to look for more but no luck.
Still don't really know what to make of it. I went back down there today to look for more but no luck.
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So you're saying that someone was harvesting fossils? Sounds legit to me.BROUSER wrote:I'm going to hazard a guess and say fossil collection. Possibly cephalopods of in the Winslow Formation from the Pennsylvanian era. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1 ... id=3739256
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Are you looking up at it, or is it on a wall? It almost looks like somebody busted off some cave bacon or something of that nature, though Brouser's theory is probably spot on, especially with the second shot showing daylight.
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RE: Stumped
Looks like an iron concretion, typical of the atoka and associated sandy intervals in that area. The honeycomb structure is a good indication of an iron based concretion. Some quite good fossil collecting can be found along the railroad cuts starting in brentwood and working south. Anywhere you can gain access from a road crossing is worth a walk if there is a rock-cut present. Some neat black limestone with many white invertebrate fossils can be picked up very easily. Polishes up nicely too