Got A Rock you Want Identified? Post it here! gimme a good picture or 3 or 4!

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Ok sorry if I attached the pictures 100 times but I had major trouble trying to load them so now that they're there I don't want to risk completely removing them all. Anywho I found these along the texas coast and was hoping someone could tell me what they are. Wanted to add that the rock with the inner rings was originally whole. It was oval shaped and a white grey color outside. Thanks in advance.
 

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Looking for some info on these rocks. Interested in potentially polishing or tumbling depending. Any info regarding composition would be appreciated!! Green rock located in Virginia, rock #2 located in NJ. Thanks in advance! IMG_5262.JPG IMG_5261.JPG
 

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Ok sorry if I attached the pictures 100 times but I had major trouble trying to load them so now that they're there I don't want to risk completely removing them all. Anywho I found these along the texas coast and was hoping someone could tell me what they are. Wanted to add that the rock with the inner rings was originally whole. It was oval shaped and a white grey color outside. Thanks in advance.

I'd tempted to think it's sandstone.
 

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Looking for some info on these rocks. Interested in potentially polishing or tumbling depending. Any info regarding composition would be appreciated!! Green rock located in Virginia, rock #2 located in NJ. Thanks in advance! View attachment 1454965 View attachment 1454966

#1 I'd like a higher resolution image, if possible. It could be volcanic or metamorphic.
The white 'grains' are likely feldspar - see if they show 'flat' shiny spots if tilted in the sun. It's called cleavage and feldspar shows it off real well.
The flat spots look sorta like a staircase under magnification.

#2 Is likely a greenstone i.e. a metamophic rock of mafic (quartz-poor) composition.
 

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Could be a weathered granite or a bog-ore like thing. I'd like better pictures, as in better resolution. I can't make out much details when zoomed in.
Also see if a knife can scratch it, any knife will do. And do a streak test; rubb against an unglazed piece of porcelain. What if any color do you get?
 

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I found this weird black rock in a gray concrete ditch when I was a kid in Theodore, Alabama. ??? I always wondered if it was a meteorite, lol :laughing7: But I don't think so now when I've looked at pics of meteorites on Google Images. It's not magnetic, but it is heavy for it's size. I would like to know what it is. :tongue3:
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IMG_1235.JPG found at McKinnon flats in rocky view alberta
 

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Here's some pics of two rocks I found while trout fishing on a stream in an area that was missed by the glaciers. I'm trying to show the brownish colored small crystals that look something like a geode...

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I found this weird black rock in a gray concrete ditch when I was a kid in Theodore, Alabama. ??? I always wondered if it was a meteorite, lol :laughing7: But I don't think so now when I've looked at pics of meteorites on Google Images. It's not magnetic, but it is heavy for it's size. I would like to know what it is. :tongue3:
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The image is to small to make out details. Get a bigger resolution picture. Will a knife scratch it?
 

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View attachment 1455580 found at McKinnon flats in rocky view alberta

#1 Could a hydrothermally altered rock. Can't say what it was originally. Perhaps sedimentary? Just speculating.
#2 Is a hydrothermally altered mafic rock; such as diabase/basalt or something similar.
 

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Found a thin vein of this in an old hard rock mine, my google research makes me think it might be asbestos? It was found in Northern CA, near Downieville.
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It scratches really easy. I could even shave it with a knife if I wanted. It's flaky, like I could pull of layers.
 

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not sure what this is but hoping you can help. its been in the family since i can remember. my dad said he found it in the ground. IMAG4695.jpg
 

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