Help identify please!

[Freemindedclark]

I found this in Southwest Iowa and would appreciate any info that can be provided.

 

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[Kray Gelder]

Looks like a rock, Clark. Keep looking. Good luck.

 

[kenstein]

Agree with Kray; rock.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Just a rock.

 

[Freemindedclark]

Can you further explain yourselves when you say just a rock. I am trying to understand the logic behind your reasoning. I can't learn if nothing to learn from except my own logic

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Can you further explain yourselves when you say just a rock. I am trying to understand the logic behind your reasoning. I can't learn if nothing to learn from except my own logic

? Not sure what your asking, it is just a rock that is weathered, not an artifact. Are you asking what rock is composed of?

Here is a link to a member who has help many members identify rocks.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/h...ified-post-here-gimme-good-picture-3-4-a.html

Post it there and he can help you.

 

[ToddsPoint]

To shape a rock like that, an Indian would peck it with a quartz hammerstone. This would leave the rock with the same roughness all over. Once it's shaped by pecking, the rough surface is removed by abrading with sandstone or similar rock. Polishing leaves it very smooth but probably some peck marks still remain. From the time the pecking is done, the rock has a consistent finish all over. It's all worked and all looks the same. Gary

 

[Freemindedclark]

To shape a rock like that, an Indian would peck it with a quartz hammerstone. This would leave the rock with the same roughness all over. Once it's shaped by pecking, the rough surface is removed by abrading with sandstone or similar rock. Polishing leaves it very smooth but probably some peck marks still remain. From the time the pecking is done, the rock has a consistent finish all over. It's all worked and all looks the same. Gary

I posted this in the fossil forum not the artifact forum.

 

[Freemindedclark]

? Not sure what your asking, it is just a rock that is weathered, not an artifact. Are you asking what rock is composed of?

Here is a link to a member who has help many members identify rocks.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/h...ified-post-here-gimme-good-picture-3-4-a.html

Post it there and he can help you.

Do you just reply to my post without looking at what forum it's posted in? 1st rate moderator. Imo

 

[Whiplash016]

The outer brown layer is a mud mix sediment from a second deposit. The layer underneath has some manganese or whatever iron oxide has leached in during mineral transfer, that’s the purplish color. I can’t tell if it’s silicified or much more than that from the photos. It could have been a piece of coral or something else at one time, but I can’t see anything that would help identify it. Try to clean it up and see what you got.

 

[lairmo]

Not a geologist but IMO a rock...that looks like a bone....

 

[Freemindedclark]

Not a geologist but IMO a rock...that looks like a bone....

I was thinking a tooth maybe I will try to clean it

 

[CaptEsteban]

I believe it is a rock, that just happens to be shaped somewhat like a sharks tooth.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

IMHO a rock, posted in the Fossils forum, that coincidentally has the outline of a shark's tooth.

Though shark's teeth are invariably thinner at the tip than the root in all three dimensions.