GEOFACT THREAD. POST YOUR BEST

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Mother nature was real crafty around here. Here are some examples. :thumbsup:

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Interesting finds for sure. Thanks for sharing my friend
 

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How about some "ventifacts" sculpted by millenia of desert winds in Northern Saudi Arabia?

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Here is my best so far. I found this in Bandera County on a well site on Seco Creek. Reminded me of a Native American dog effigy some clown was selling on E Bay for a large sum of money a few years ago.

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Here is my best so far. I found this in Bandera County on a well site on Seco Creek. Reminded me of a Native American dog effigy some clown was selling on E Bay for a large sum of money a few years ago.

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Better keep it. One day a geofact nut may really want that thing
 

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"Uneducated"? They confused the hell out of a copule of Austrian PhD geologists on the tunneling job I worked on in Saudi at the time! Also,a pretty famous Italian archaeolgist who was in Riyadh at the time.

not on the same theme, but another "ventifact ' is this stunning piece of Saudi petrified wood - etched and polished by hundreds of thousands of years of wind and sand.

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I can see where the ventifacts would be somewhat hard to distinguish but usually when something looks out of place and too good to be true then maybe it's not real. Oh and the sandblasted look adds to the ventifact case. I like the petrified wood. Last bit I found around here got left at my old house.
 

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The rocks were formed out of "tabular" material, stuff that was in layers, so that a broken off bit - flat on the top and bottom alreasy, got it's upwind and downwind parts sanded away into kind of a boat shape - basic hydrodynamics.
 

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The rocks were formed out of "tabular" material, stuff that was in layers, so that a broken off bit - flat on the top and bottom alreasy, got it's upwind and downwind parts sanded away into kind of a boat shape - basic hydrodynamics.

Some neat finds for sure. The main reason I would like to collect things like that is the way in which they were formed and how they ended up looking the way they do now.
 

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Cool thread Civil. Hafted end scraper look alike. Back is narrowed down. 3rd pic shows how it's angled down to a geo worked scraping edge.

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Found a nice geofact today (if there is such a thing :laughing7:). Also found some real nice agates that I will be posting in another thread when I am done treating them.

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