Strange spot on the ground...

scotto

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Today Fossis and I headed out to do a little metal detecting, which wasn't too successful. The land owner took us on his power mule to a strange spot in his field, where he said it looked like a big meteorite slammed into it, leaving some debris and a crater. We picked up some samples, which could be from a stony meteorite, or something we don't know. Fossis is going to send a sample to someone who may be able to identify it.

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Then we headed out to Fossis' spot to look for some more fern fossils and petrified wood, and we found a few specimens to bring home, not much is left there. It was a great day to get out and pretty warm, Fossis forgot to bring his water and almost died of thirst. ;D

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This area has a slight crater all around, weathered down with time.
The (material) has a slight metallic hit on the detector, & the farmer had trouble driving fence posts for a hundred yds (it is just under the soil).
the material is heavy, not like lava rock, but fairly easy to crumble.

Fossis..................
 

LadyDigger

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WOW...what a nice day you had...

Scotto....that is a really nice speciman of a fossil you have there....hubby says it appears to look like a TOOTHLESS FOSSISAURUS REX... ;D

Did you grab that hammer thingy too? I bet that is the tool that the FOSSISAURUS may have once used!

HH,
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TreasureTales said:
fossis said:
This area has a slight crater all around, weathered down with time.
The (material) has a slight metallic hit on the detector, & the farmer had trouble driving fence posts for a hundred yds (it is just under the soil).
the material is heavy, not like lava rock, but fairly easy to crumble.

Fossis..................


Ahhhh, very interesting. How long before you know what the material is? I hope it's a meteorite - that would be so cool! Did you try putting a magnet on any of the material?

A magnet wouldn't pull to it, it is completely different from the local 'sandstone' found in this area, & I found a large chunk several years ago , two miles from here.
The landowner said we could have half if we could sell it, (fingers crossed) :P

Fossis.................
 

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Ron and Ann said:
WOW...what a nice day you had...

Scotto....that is a really nice speciman of a fossil you have there....hubby says it appears to look like a TOOTHLESS FOSSISAURUS REX... ;D

Did you grab that hammer thingy too? I bet that is the tool that the FOSSISAURUS may have once used!

HH,
Annmarie and Ron

"I resemble that remark', I am not 'toothless yet'. ;D ;D

Fossis................
 

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I wanted to collect the Fossisaurus specimen to bring home and sell on ebay, but it was too heavy to pack out. ;D
 

rmptr

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That's one of them venusian landing spots.
Too much ballast to take off and they left the biggest one behind.
They left him that hara-kiri hammer and he used it well. ;D
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rmptr said:
That's one of them venusian landing spots.
Too much ballast to take off and they left the biggest one behind.
They left him that hara-kiri hammer and he used it well. ;D
rmptr

Luckily I was tough & survived another day. ::)

Fossis............
 

wesfrye53

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Fossis,

Maybe you need to spend a little less time looking at spots on the ground and more time watching "Survivorman" so you'll know what to do when you forget your water! ::)
 

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wesfrye53 said:
Fossis,

Maybe you need to spend a little less time looking at spots on the ground and more time watching "Survivorman" so you'll know what to do when you forget your water! ::)

But I started 'seeing spots' before I hit the ground. :P

Fossis.............
 

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scotto said:
Today Fossis and I headed out to do a little metal detecting, which wasn't too successful. The land owner took us on his power mule to a strange spot in his field, where he said it looked like a big meteorite slammed into it, leaving some debris and a crater. We picked up some samples, which could be from a stony meteorite, or something we don't know. Fossis is going to send a sample to someone who may be able to identify it.

anAST.jpg


Then we headed out to Fossis' spot to look for some more fern fossils and petrified wood, and we found a few specimens to bring home, not much is left there. It was a great day to get out and pretty warm, Fossis forgot to bring his water and almost died of thirst. ;D

fossisDry.jpg
I don't care what the indians say you can't hear fossils coming in the distance ;D
 

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LMBO.....some great responses!!! Fossis....isn't it wonderful to be LOVED!!!!!! :-* ;D

Scotto...sorry if we got away from...ahhh...OH...that spot on the ground ;)

Ya'll have an awesome day!
Annmarie
 

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Ron and Ann said:
LMBO.....some great responses!!! Fossis....isn't it wonderful to be LOVED!!!!!! :-* ;D

Scotto...sorry if we got away from...ahhh...OH...that spot on the ground ;)

Ya'll have an awesome day!
Annmarie

It sure is :P

Fossis.............
 

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CarolinaDigs said:
I loved this post !!! Hope it turns out to be a meteorite :) Great picture of Fossis ;) I am so happy that your survived the drought ;)

Thanks Carolina, I may try & send samples to a college in AR, & I finally 'revived up'. ::)

Fossis.................
 

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There's Fossis......laying down on the job ;D
Thanks Scotto,

TW
 

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