I found this giant rock / deposit in my yard any ideas

[prich21908]

 

[AlabamaRelic]

That is definitely a rock. Congrats!

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Are you in an area where rocks are uncommon?

 

[prich21908]

I’m trying to see if this rock might be valuable it’s literally immense size

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Are you in an area where large rocks are uncommon?

 

[prich21908]

It’s more than an average large rock 🤣

 

[ToddsPoint]

Are you in the Midwest? There are rocks like that at the edge of most farm fields in my area. Removed by farmers over the yrs. The glacier brought us plenty.

 

[russau]

To me , it appears to be some petrified wood in what looks like some Lime stone .

 

[robertk]

It looks like leverite to me. (As in "Leave 'er right there".). Just a rock. If it is bothering you, someone might want it for a landscape decoration.

 

[pepperj]

It looks like leverite to me. (As in "Leave 'er right there".). Just a rock. If it is bothering you, someone might want it for a landscape decoration.

Sometimes a rock becomes a landscape decoration. This 5'x2' is now one.

 

[Blackfoot58]

Your title says you found the giant rock deposit in your yard.
How long was it before you discovered it?
It seems like something one would find immediately, not eventually.

 

[tamrock]

what state and county is your yard in.

 

[tamrock]

It’s more than an average large rock 🤣

We get that, but didn't you want to find out what kind of rock it is or maybe how it came to be in your yard. Knowing what area it is might give some ideas on what it could be and why its there. And, what's that stuff you're growing...

 

[UnderMiner]

That's a glacial erratic, it's likely been down there since the end of the last Ice Age. A glacier would have picked it up far up north and then when the ice melted it would have fallen out in that spot further south from its original location. You're likely the first person to see it since the age of the cavemen, the pyramids were not built yet, mankind had hardly begun its first steps out of the jungle.

 

[beepbleep]

You need to move it for the roots to grow down there.

 

[UnderMiner]

You need to move it for the roots to grow down there.

He's going to need to rent one of these, a hydraulic breaker. Shouldn't be too expensive if they work fast and carve out a few feet of the surface of the rock, then they can leave the rest down there.

 

[releventchair]

From the looks of the marijuana plants it might be Colombian granite rock.

Geology of Colombia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[releventchair]

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Well my question that was really not responded to was intended to determine if this size rock is unusual and would demand a landscape price. That’s not a very big rock in my area and our rocks only demand high prices if shipped to areas that do not have a supply.

 

[russau]

HUH? Why move it , just use it as a start on your new rock home !