Cool Rock

[BarryBobPosthole]

Julie and grandson Noah picked up this little nondescript rock at the playground.

Best I can figure this must be some sort of insect wing. I think anyway. Pretty cool what you can see if you're a noticer.

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[Big Muddy]

It sorta resembles a small piece of coarse cloth material, or perhaps burlap....most insect wings have more random patterns....jmho.

Still quite interesting, however.

[Arty]

That's pretty cool. Think it's worth a dollar in north Caroline?

[Chicken Dinner]

Down on the Bay you can find a bunch of fossilized sharks teeth and pieces of whale baleen. The coolest fossils I've found were snails that I found in Egypt near where the battle of El Alamein was. It was right after a sand storm and this whole dune was covered with them. The coolest part is that the shell is gone, and the fossil is basically a coarse sand that filled up the inside of the shell. I guess that whole part of North Africa was a seabed eons ago.

[LJ3]

I'm gonna go with a piece of loincloth from Posthole's ancestors. You're welcome.

[Big Muddy]

I'm gonna go with a piece of loincloth from Posthole's ancestors. You're welcome.

Must be the reason it's so tiny. ;)

[Captain]

Must be the reason it's so tiny. ;)

Damn!!!!!!!

[Thumper]

A Spandex loin cloth.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I'm not sure how a piece of cloth gets fossilized in a rock. I guess it could be though.

Check out this photo of a fossilized wing from the innerwebs.
BkB

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[Thumper]

The whole point is, if he's anything like I was as a kid, this could very well spark an interest in rock and/or fossil collecting. Kind'a like the ones in his grandpa's haid! ;)

[quercus alba]

A Spandex loin cloth.

Maybe Arty's people were from Oklahoma