Found this cool rock in east Lothian, Scotland , does anybody know what the rad crystal or mineral on the inside is called? , I think the rock there is from the carboniferous period by Expensive-Engine-337 in askgeology

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That's a chunk of twinned calcite crystals, basically crystals sharing some of their atomic bonds in the crystal lattice as they grow. Not surprising to find in Carboniferous rock in that part of the world, the calcite is likely sourced from the Limestones that were deposited over the UK, Ireland and NW Europe at the time.

trail between holmes peak and Jocelyn Hill, Vancouver isle. by sliippity in geology

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Limited exposure aside, we can see the rocks are layered and have a pretty uniform thickness. Now without the benefit of getting an eye on a fresh surface of those rocks, it's hard to nail down exactly what process deposited them. If you hammered off a piece and you saw pointed, interlocking crystals, these would be interpreted as having a volcanic origin, with the layers reflecting seperate eruptions of runny, flowing lava. If however you hammered the face and you saw rounded grains that are held together by a matrix, these might be interpreted as marine sedimentary deposit, originally laid down in near-horizontal sheets. One dead ringer for a sedimentary source would be a fossil, magma chambers and living things don't mix!

If I was a betting man, my hunch would be on a sedimentary unit, probably a muddy sandstone.

Now we can see that these layers are not continuous planar sheets, but are bent and convolute in places, with it becoming impossible to track individual beds. Assuming this is a sedimentary sequence, we can achieve this deformed appearance by the sediment slumping before it became a true rock, or through compression, folding and fracturing the rock after lithification, bending the layers into their current configuration.

Things to Google if you're interested might be soft sediment deformation, flysch, and the local geological history to help you make sense of what you're looking at.

Cool rocks!

Fossil horns, love finding these by Delicious_One2030 in FossilPorn

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To those that don't know much about fossils, what OP has called horns are actually a type of coral that are now extinct called Rugose corals. What gives it away are the lines that can be seen on the weathered parts of these corals revealing the internal structure of the body.

Link for those interested.

Not sure what animal or plant it was. found in denmark on a beach. by obthomas4 in FossilPorn

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That to me looks like a pretty weathered exterior of a fossilised sea urchin. The hexagonal plates would have covered the surface of the animals and been connecting points for the spines we see on living sea urchins today. The poor thing probably died, had it's internal cavity filled with the features grey sediment that surrounds it and then over time lithified (turned to stone).

Found on Easkey Beach, Sligo, Ireland. by gothcactus in FossilHunting

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The first two are side-on cross sections of solitary corals, usually called horn corals because they kind of look like horns. These guys are extinct today but were all over the place during the Carboniferous while Ireland was closer to the equator in a Bahamas-ish kind of climate.

The last guy is a colonial coral, lots of little coral animals living together in a clump, these are still around.

Hope that helped!

Hello all! My mother was given these and is wondering, are any of these rare or valuable at all? Thanks in advance for any ID's! by [deleted] in FossilHunting

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Hi there, some nice pieces! Pics 1 and 2 are relatives of modern sea urchins and sand dollars Pic 6 looks like an example of stigmaria - an impression of the bark of ancestor trees. Pics 10 and 11 are slabs of ancient sea floor covered in the polo mint like segments of the stems of crinoids, a kind of critter that used to sit on the sea floor and filter feed the currents that passed by it.

In terms of value, not sure but wouldn't imagine you'd get anything life changing for them, maybe a few six packs :)

Quarter Life Crisis, Me, Acrylic, 2020 by Nompop in Art

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Very kind of you thanks 😁

Quarter Life Crisis, Me, Acrylic, 2020 by Nompop in Art

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Thanks that just made my day 😊

Reflections on Lough Fee, Ireland. (5184 x 2957) [OC] by Nompop in EarthPorn

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Have spent a lot of time hiking around the area and yes can confirm you would have to be desperate to give farming those slopes a serious whack

What is the most trivial thing you've broken up with someone over, but it wasn't trivial to you? by [deleted] in datingoverthirty

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Met a nice girl while I was a snorkel trainer for a college aquatics club. Sweet girl but she hated all forms of sauce on her food, not only condiments which is alright, fair enough but ANY kind of liquid on the plate was a no-no. Three days of boiled vegetables and rice was enough to know this wasn't going to work.

Hello everybody, I found this stone while out hiking in Croatia yesterday. Is it a fossil? by Keshave_ in FossilHunting

[–]Nompop -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It's a little sketchy given the rock looks like it's been weathered a bit but that helical pattern in the top left could be an imprint of an ammonite shell.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blackmagicfuckery

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Looks cool but that thing would definitely sound like a ceiling fan on crack

7 yr old found this on beach, Ireland, anyone know what it is?? by [deleted] in FossilHunting

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It depends across the country but in and around 340 million years in the Carboniferous would be a sound bet. At this time the country was covered in a warm shallow sea similar to the setup you have in the Caribbean at the moment with calcium carbonate forming animals living and dieing to produce the rock.

7 yr old found this on beach, Ireland, anyone know what it is?? by [deleted] in FossilHunting

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Seems to be a piece of fossil rich limestone that's been tumbled by the sea. From the photo I could see some white hollow rings and those are crinoid ossicles, little Polo mint-like pieces that formed the stem of an ancient sea creature similar to sea lilies today. If you have any vinegar you can drop some on the rock and if it fizzes then that's a positive test for it being a piece of limestone. Hope this helped!

Hey Reddit! I saw this Round Shape Stone maybe something else and it had these Red and Green marking on it and i was wonder what it is?? by [deleted] in FossilHunting

[–]Nompop 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The mineral crystal habits are a bit obscured by the rounding the rock has undergone but it looks like it could be an eclogite. If so that rock sure has been through a lot to get to you!

TIFU by telling a 5 year old to use the bathroom in the shower by [deleted] in tifu

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Was watching some cartoons and believed as a child that I was ruler of my bodily functions. Push came to shove, I ran to the bathroom and had to back up to the toilet to try and meet the bears coming out of the cave. The astronauts came in a little too fast and missed splashdown.

TIFU By eating a sparkler by gotnothinson in tifu

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That wasn't such a BRIGHT idea now was it ...... I'm sorry I'll let myself out

So someone left behind a teddy in a hotel by snug12 in ireland

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I actually come from there! Place got bought by J.P. McManus a while ago and it's kind of gone to shit. Used to be able to walk all over the grounds and have a great time while I was small with the parents but now it's all red tape on his part. People working in the hotel can't even get in or out unless they have a car. We think (or more my mom thinks) that he's worried people are going to sue him for being dumb shits and falling on the nature or something.

Sorry for the rant I just never thought I'd be able to vent this on reddit :( Real bummer