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Non Life Sciences => Geology, Palaeontology & Archaeology => Topic started by: ichnos on 16/05/2007 11:46:17

Title: Interesting structures.... ;-)
Post by: ichnos on 16/05/2007 11:46:17

Anyone have any ideas what these are? hint: they were found in continental sediments   [ Invalid Attachment ]  [ Invalid Attachment ]

Title: Interesting structures.... ;-)
Post by: daveshorts on 16/05/2007 16:43:02

Could the left hand one be a large corprolite?
How old are the sediments?

Title: Interesting structures.... ;-)
Post by: DrDick on 16/05/2007 17:52:27

hmmm, let's see...the first one is a vase suspended above a table, and the second one is a man's face.

How's that? [;)]

Dick

Title: Interesting structures.... ;-)
Post by: JimBob on 16/05/2007 19:13:25

They appear to be sand blows formed during an earthquake.

Title: Interesting structures.... ;-)
Post by: ichnos on 17/05/2007 08:07:01

they are oligocene-miocene in age.. and err... no.. none of the above! :-)

Title: Interesting structures.... ;-)
Post by: ichnos on 18/05/2007 13:39:28

ok.. well, i find them interesting! the first one is a subterranean social wasp nest found within a palaeosol in overbank deposits (Late Oligocene-Miocene, Ebro Basin) and the second is a subterranean termite nest, note the coalesced chambers, in alluvial fan deposits (!) of Miocene sediments (again ebro basin)

Title: Interesting structures.... ;-)
Post by: JimBob on 19/05/2007 21:33:49

ah, Espania, Wine, food and sleep  --- oops, this is Catalonia - got to work!!!!!!

Just a friendly suggestion. I could not read the scale on the rule. It would have been very helpful if you had given the scale in your text body. No problem, really, but I would have had a different train of thought if I had been given a scale.

 [;D]

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Post by: tony6789 on 22/05/2007 18:04:27

hmmmm idk something left over from and event!
!!!! yes im so smart lol

Title: Interesting structures.... ;-)
Post by: Ashtari on 31/05/2007 16:00:30

Oops

Friend

Could you be so kind and explain to me in dummy language how to paste a picture from a disc or from my C: to the forum. [:-\]

I see you have posted a pic successfully  [;D]

 [:o)]

Title: Interesting structures.... ;-)
Post by: daveshorts on 31/05/2007 16:08:57

try
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=3458.0