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Other Activities => Other Adventures => Topic started by: LDennis24 on December 26, 2023, 05:35:16 PM

Title: What kind of rock is this?
Post by: LDennis24 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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Post by: Boss .300 winmag on December 26, 2023, 05:41:32 PM: Kind be a low grade jade.
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Post by: SuperX on December 26, 2023, 05:46:21 PM: Jasper?
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Post by: callturner on December 26, 2023, 06:02:18 PM: Its a leaver right, Leaver right there! :chuckle:
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Post by: wadu1 on December 26, 2023, 06:10:33 PM: Looks like chatoyant nephrite aka Northwest Jade?
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Post by: wadu1 on December 26, 2023, 06:27:46 PM: Quote from: callturner on December 26, 2023, 06:02:18 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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Post by: 3boys on May 29, 2024, 09:55:34 PM: What beach?
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Post by: Knocker of rocks 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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Post by: Call em in on May 29, 2024, 10:17:27 PM: :dunno: