I HAVE NO CLUE TO THIS STRANGEST

[matsi-chris]

 

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[kingskid1611]

Welcome to the forum. Nice piece of natural limestone. Very common around where I am. Good Luck and Happy Hunting

 

[ARC]

Kings... you sure ?

Looks like a piece of coral to me.

 

[Oddjob]

nothing strange there, we had caves of this stuff at one of our ranches on the medina. Used to take that stuff and dried up elk horn to sell to city folks.

 

[Oddjob]

Holey rock I think is what it was called back then. Used to get some of our best rattlers out of those caves too for the round up.

 

[kingskid1611]

Kings... you sure ?

Looks like a piece of coral to me.

Yep I happen to landscape with this stuff by the tons. Very popular flowerbed boulders to choose from.

 

[Rookster]

Welcome from Mississippi.

 

[filmiracl]

It's not sandstone or coral... It's a flint nodule.

 

[john845]

it looks like flint too me i have seen that before i cant remember where though...

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I'd go with flint or chert nodule.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/16617660887

 

[steelheadwill]

Nice flint nodule, they are often found in organic shapes when formed in cavities left by ancient shallow sea life forms, e.g.,corals.

 

[steelheadwill]

These caused me much consternation as there are seaside areas near me literally covered with them, research showed me the closest source was western US, turns out, it was a popular as ships ballast stone in colonial times

 

[mike b]

These caused me much consternation as there are seaside areas near me literally covered with them, research showed me the closest source was western US, turns out, it was a popular as ships ballast stone in colonial times

I vote banner for Steelheadwill just for using "consternation" in a sentence.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I had that, but Metamusil cleared it up.

 

[Plug N Play]

matsi-chris,
"I HAVE NO CLUE TO THIS STRANGEST"

Can't help you without some location.
Shore ballast, French flint, fossilized coral from Florida, Texas chert ... the list is very long and dependent on location.

It's a big world, with rocks everywhere.
A clue would help.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

How about we go with limestone with chert nodules protruding.

 

[A2coins]

I want one very neat find

 

[Joe-Dirt]

I thought it looked like flint, but shaped like coral, could it be sea flint? Anyway, you could arm a lot of flintlocks with it!!

 

[CRUSADER]

It's not sandstone or coral... It's a flint nodule.

Totally agree, natural flint nodule, partly broken.

 

[Doubter in MD]

I vote banner for Steelheadwill just for using "consternation" in a sentence.

That's not hard. Just last week I was at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore and I took a tour of the U.S.S. Consternation.