Showing posts with label rocks and minerals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rocks and minerals. Show all posts

Monday, July 1, 2013

Obsidian Glass (& a "moon rock") (?)


2 scans of the latest found object - 2013, DS
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"Seek and ye shall find"! 

Actually, this is rarely true in my experience... but, I did find what I was looking for at the beach yesterday (see previous post): obsidian glass. Of course, it's so glass-like, it's practically impossible to scan, but, this should give you some idea. It has a slight rainbow flash, but nothing like in the scan - more like the colors one sees in a crow's feather.

And, I also found a lunar rock! Okay, so, it's not really a lunar rock - just another specimen of volcanic rock with a lot of obsidian. It's blacker than it appears in the scan, though; it also has a very silvery sheen to it... 





Scan of the "moon rock" - 2013, DS
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Later note: Actually, the true identity of these rocks is still in doubt. I suppose virtually anything can be found on a shoreline, but, we are talking about a Connecticut shoreline... (see the comment section of this post). So, ladies & gentlemen, the jury is still out.


The jury's in... see: Anthracite & Graphite.