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what are these rocks and why do they look like this ?

 
 
Reply Thu 27 Nov, 2014 05:55 pm
http://i.imgur.com/Iv82Vb7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mfrokl6.jpg
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rosborne979
 
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Reply Thu 27 Nov, 2014 08:03 pm
@vince8388,
Good question. I don't really know, but I might guess that they were worn down by wave action and then buried again under whatever is above them.
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hingehead
 
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Reply Fri 28 Nov, 2014 02:31 am
@vince8388,
I'm really not an expert, but the fine grained texture and colour makes me think they might be schist, a metamorphic state of shale. Looking at how it's sandwiched between two layers of what looks like shale and noting what looks like quartz threaded through it possibly it was metamorphised by proximity to a volcanic vent. I'm guessing the weird shapes are just erosion.
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vince8388
 
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Reply Sat 29 Nov, 2014 06:47 pm
@vince8388,
Found this also a couple feet away, it looks like quartz in the middle that is outlined with something black. Rock is two feet long one foot wide http://i.imgur.com/GEeed5r.jpg
.also a few feet away about 6 inches long 3 inches wide http://i.imgur.com/BWo9czT.jpg
these were found about 20 feet above a ironstone layer in shale
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Reply Sun 30 Nov, 2014 03:22 am
@vince8388,


I think you found the earth's mouth and those teeth seriously need scaling. Eww.
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timur
 
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Reply Sun 30 Nov, 2014 06:41 am
@vince8388,
I think they are pillow basalts, the last one being typical basalt columns.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0rC5WDj67Ws/TNre_dtQkFI/AAAAAAAAAG8/TvF8N12XnxA/s1600/30+Pillow+Basalts.JPG
http://images.summitpost.org/original/363223.JPG
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