🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Hello everyone iam new to the site and would really appreciate someone's expertise on identifying this thanks Jared

JAREDLEE?

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Is there sandstone on cape cod I found this deep in the earth while digging to lift a house
There is a Relish brown sandstone in Ma.
 

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Is there sandstone on cape cod I found this deep in the earth while digging to lift a house
As shown on this geologic map of Massachusetts ( click to enlarge ), the cape is unconsolidated sediments. It is basically all sand, deposited by ocean currents. Your rock, I suspect, would crumble easily if hit with a hammer, or chipped at with a screwdriver, for example. Knowing now the location we can presume the weight of overlaying sediments have compacted it somewhat, solidifying it, but it is not actual sandstone. More accurately a lump of compressed sand.

Just an opinion based on your photo, and where you dug it up.

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After a great deal of painstaking research... and squinting and enlarging...

I have come to the very technical conclusion... what you have there is...

A rock.

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Who knows what rocks were also deposited when the glaciers receded after last ice age.
 

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So tell me what do you see on the stone? Something tells me you have more questions. Yeah it's a form of sand stone. Was it found it about 3 feet down?
 

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