Rocks found on beach.

[PennyG]

I have a few rocks I need help identifying please.







Picture 2 , does not stick to magnet





Both stick to magnet #3









Picture 4&5 same rock. Magnetic and has some rock protruding that reminds me of amber or garnet maybe?





#6 light weight and almost completely round













Picture 8&9 same rock. To be honest it looks and feels like a tooth.

 

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[Jimick]

The magnetic ones may very possibly be meteorite and worth more than their weight in gold. That's if they are in fact meteorites.

 

[PennyG]

Is there a tell tell way of knowing?

 

[huntsman53]

Find a University nearby with a Geology Department, call the Professor and ask him or her if you can bring them by. They should be able to identify all of the rocks for you. If you can't make that happen, then search for a Rock/Gem Shop nearby and hopefully the folks running it will be knowledgeable enough to identify the rocks. Just be careful and wize or in other words, if they say that the rocks that might be meteorites are not meteorites but offer to purchase them, then decline and go somewhere else for identifcation.


Frank

 

[DDancer]

Just taking a stab~
Picture one looks to be a quartz pebble inside of a concretion and a piece of rock crystal, quartz.
Picture two I cant really tell much~ maybe basalts. The rod like pieces are interesting~ wonder if they are glass. Possibly tektites.
Picture 3,4 and 5, in three the top piece may be a large bit of magnetite or hematite~ sorry doubt its meteorite in origin. The second bit with the glassy object in it is not meteorite either~ appears to be a chunk of degraded iron with broken glass in it, possibly slag. Keep in mind that people have been dumping trash in the ocean for a long time so something like that could have come from an old fire pit. Interesting bit though.
Pictures 6 and 7 look to be water worn coral though 7 maybe a conglomerate sandstone~ possibly with fossils.
The last pictures do appear to be a tooth or a bone of some sort and may be a fossil.

My thoughts.

 

[gunsil]

The magnetic ones may very possibly be meteorite and worth more than their weight in gold. That's if they are in fact meteorites.

Many meteorites are worth a whole lot less than gold, a whole lot less. Like $50.00 for several ounces. Penny, the only way to tell if it is indeed a meteorite is to have it analyzed by someone who specializes in doing so. There are several university geology labs that do it.