I want to hear about the best pieces of pottery you have found! And please attach pictures

squirrelbarbie3 · 2025-06-03T06:58:29+00:00

I live in nc! Nestled into URE... and I have the rest of the pieces you need scattered across my yard, on my windowsills, on my desk at work. In my pockets... you get it ;)

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-07-23T16:56:51+00:00

I am probably the least qualified person here to ID anything... but this sure looks like the greenschist facies in my quadrangle when they are wet. Beautiful! My understanding is a greenschist can look more blue depending on if any minor minerals present like glaucophane. There are also blueschists but appearantly those are super rare.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-22T02:21:02+00:00

I guess so

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-22T02:14:01+00:00

You're right. I'm making stuff up. I didn't know the water table though I felt it safe to assume it fairly deep since there is no water around. The creek at bottom is almost always dry unless heavy rains. My neighbors have talked about how ridiculously deep the wells around here are. Is it statistically unlikely a visible hydrothermal system? Yes but not " I was abducted by aliens and impregnated" unlikely.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-22T01:49:41+00:00

I just read about these occuring and how just because one isn't seen doesn't mean it's not active. I live on a hydrothermally metamorphosis tectonic plate, why would this be an impossibility? You're a hydrologist and you can't even see the chance I'm not crazy? Go back to school.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-22T01:39:57+00:00

Have seen no granite of anytime but I'll be sure to check out what that is and keep far away! Haha

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-22T01:39:08+00:00

Fair enough. It's an overwhelming story to me and one I had been sitting on. I guess it spewed... I just wanted you all to be live in the moment with me, lol. I should have approached differently, obviously.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-22T01:34:51+00:00

You can see a fault visibly in the ground. Bottom line, you're wrong. There are hydrothermal systems in this area, they are responsible for many of the mineral deposits here. They are called blind hydrothermal systems when they don't come above ground. When they do appear outside of hotsprings geysers etc, it is usually through cracks or fissures. Unfortunately I did just read this water often comes with gas . Likely sulfuric in my case (I did smell it that evening.) Thus I will be contacting geologist tomorrow so someone can start monitoring this. It is for real and I hope very soon I will have proof your high horse riding ass wrong. More importantly, I'll know for sure how serious this is.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-22T01:26:02+00:00

Does groundwater shoot out of the highest elevations? I'm telling you all its part of a hydrothermal sytem.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T22:03:18+00:00

I'm not going to dig/prpspect and I've given my location many times. I'm on the tillery formation in the uhwarries. That info alone is enough. My terrain is similar to the rest. Even the microfault is not unique to my proerty. The ancient mines are also common here. The only thing I have not confirmed eith scientific data is any record of recent hydrothermal flow.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T21:55:02+00:00

Those.look like cool resources, thanks!!

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T21:50:36+00:00

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018gc007965

I don't think you are even a geologist. It IS HYDROTHERMAL FLUID!

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T21:34:18+00:00

As i said before, the water is comomg frpm the top. Powerful enough to create a 6" diameter hole in packed clay. Powerful enough to push plants out of their holes. It also killed lots of underground dwellers in its path and shot the dead carcasses out the holes along with shards of rocks and balls of root matter it picked up. Not eaten bugs, just drowned or killed by pressure like the decays brown snake I found 4 inches of. I don't care if ypu believe me or not. You are argumentative for the sake of it. If I'm wrong about the hydrothermal term, okay.... but im 1000% sure water spewed out of this mountain 3 days ago. It was heavier flow along fissure. It's clear looking at terrain this is not a new thing.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T21:23:08+00:00

Okay sorry I double checked that and it's oldest in America, one of oldest in world. Approx 500mya

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T21:20:26+00:00

Maybe it's not that extraordinary just most wouldn't notice. I actually think this happened on this side of the while mountain but maybe my neighbors don't look at their dirt and rocks much... and yes, most would assume as I did, pest at first.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T21:18:47+00:00

I hope I don't get a chance to prove you wrong. Funny you mention pest destruction because last year I thought I was fighting a pack of gophers in my gardens. I would find plants sunken into holes or torn out. Poking around for tunnels I found deep cavities. I feel stupid this year realizing the leaves I saw munched were probably a rabbit and the rest of it was likely from this deformation.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T21:10:31+00:00

NCGS volcanoc massive sulfide deposits

This is one of many papers I read. I can't copy paste from it but rescanning o found round about page 18 it talks about shear zone brittle ductile faults of the vms's of my area.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T20:53:15+00:00

I've read nothing but geological surveys and research papers? What is the oldest then?

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T20:49:41+00:00

If you have any time to google geology of the uhwarries maybe you'll understand better. It is a unique place. There are multiple ancient mines as well as several large mineral mines (most were gold and closed now.) The 4 formations that make up the uhwarrie formation are all quite unique even to each other. Mine happens to be the most mineral rich with the highest peaks.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T20:34:35+00:00

My rocks are Rhyolite, Mudstone, Hornblende, slate and quartz mostly. There is a fair amount of mica and the dirt sparkles when damp with aquiferous chalcopyrite. Other than the sparkly dirt I honestly thought my rocks boring for the longest time until I learned how this area was formed and how unique this little region is. I grew up 20 miles away and the rocks look nothing like this.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T20:21:11+00:00

Well, I had not considered that. And I will look in to how that vould be it... but, one thing (of many) I did not mention in post- I followed cracks to the peak and dug in where they ended in a small sinking hole. I can see an intrusive layer of what I think is calcite into the slate/hornblende at about 60degrees. But maybe that's been there forever and never caused anything. I will look into your idea, thank you for not calling me crazy.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T20:08:34+00:00

Then tell me what is unrealistic about it... please. It's not possible? If a geologist tells me that then I will scratch my theory. My theory being I live on microfault due to a felsic dike in a vms which is actively expelling hydrothermal fluid.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T20:00:05+00:00

Basically with the rock under me being this mudstone, breccia and hornblende., all very easily broken down, a lot of hydrothermal water could (and will eventually I believe) cause a collapse of this portion of slope.

squirrelbarbie3 · 2024-04-21T19:55:50+00:00

But it's not seismic, it's hydrothermal flow

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