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Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology / Re: Just how rare is true blue quartz?

« on: 25/11/2022 04:57:55 »

Well, thanks Zer0, there is a lot to this collection that cannot be easily explained or identified. I met a couple of retired scientists at a rock show that told me that it would appear that I've stumbled upon a scientific diamond/gold mine of specimens. You're so right about these stones being strange & weird, I've come across things like quartz with a hardness of 9.0, a hoard of small, elongated garnets and what appears to be a piece of jasper or jade that has somehow morphed into four different minerals. Then there's this blue quartz, even it's a mystery. What's really strange about this is that I did not have to dig for any of this stuff, it was just out in the open waiting to be found, the mummified insects, plants, the marine specimens and the stones, they appear to all be connected to one hell of a mystery.

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Marine Science / Re: Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 18/11/2022 04:30:24 »

I thought that I'd give this one more try and contact a couple more scientist to see if maybe they could ID what I thought for sure were just a couple of diatoms. These were found inside of the same stone with all of the specimens shown above, I only found about 7 or 8 for each of these. Once again, they could not ID them nor explain why they look so well preserved. They were shocked to find out that these specimens were found inside of a stone in the desert with gastropods and bivalves that were 2.5-55 million years old. All of these are just a very small part of a very large mystery.

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Marine Science / Re: Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 27/10/2022 21:37:26 »

After contacting four scientist and showing over thirty different specimens I can say that I do now know something about four specimens that I did not know before so I'm grateful for that, every bit helps. Specimen #1 below, these are bryozoans, #2&3 are forams and # 4 is an ostracod. As for all of those strange, shaped specimens, it's still anyone guess. If I find out anything else new, I will come back and update.

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Marine Science / Re: Are these marine organisms new to science?

« on: 20/10/2022 23:09:10 »

I will indeed let you know what I find out.

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Chemistry / Re: What element produces a heavy gas bubble?

« on: 30/03/2022 05:14:25 »

I did a number of acid test, the end results were almost always something different than the last, the one thing that was consistent were the bubbles and that's why I was curious as to what element might be producing the bubbles. No one can say why, but this pyrite has a thing for sphere shapes. Here are some photos of the bubbles in question.