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What kind of rock is this?
« on: December 26, 2023, 05:35:16 PM »
Found this rock on the beach and decided I had to have it. Almost gave me a hernia picking it up! Awkward shape and weighed over 100 lbs.  It's really teal colored and almost translucent like jade would be.

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Re: What kind of rock is this?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2023, 05:41:32 PM »
 Kind be a low grade jade.
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Re: What kind of rock is this?
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2023, 05:46:21 PM »
Jasper?

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Re: What kind of rock is this?
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2023, 06:02:18 PM »
Its a leaver right, Leaver right there! :chuckle:

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Re: What kind of rock is this?
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2023, 06:10:33 PM »
Looks like chatoyant nephrite aka Northwest Jade?
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Re: What kind of rock is this?
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2023, 06:27:46 PM »
Its a leaver right, Leaver right there! :chuckle:
My daughter has a BS in archeology she would call it an AGDR. Another God Darn Rock :chuckle:
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Re: What kind of rock is this?
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2024, 09:55:34 PM »
What beach?

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Re: What kind of rock is this?
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2024, 09:56:37 PM »
I hate identifying rocks on the web, there is so much you can’t see. Salt water also turns the surficial color orange or green.

By the beach, I assume the Washington coast?  Rocks there are surficial greywacke seds and lavas of the crescent. Deeper portions of the crescent are also exposed in some places that Roland tabor refered to as ophiolite like.   

All that said, it looks like a green fine grained andesitic clast in a coarse matrix like a sand. Submarine landslides can also jumble all those ingredients together.

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Re: What kind of rock is this?
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2024, 10:17:27 PM »
 :dunno:

 


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