What kinda rock is this?

[Matt 23]

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Gneiss?

 

[Older The Better]

nice

 

[Matt 23]

Thanks. I thought it was a agate. It's a 65 pound rock filled up out of a corn field in Iowa. Found it by a fence line out asparagus hunting.

 

[Matt 23]

I thought it also was some Courts at the bottom and maybe Jasper at the top

 

[Matt 23]

Scratch that 65 pound that was a guesstimation I stuck it on a bathroom scale and it weighs 95 lb I do know it was Heavy carrying it to my truck

 

[tamrock]

Does look like Jasper, but I'm sure it's not. It is a piece of gneiss as Charlie said. No telling how it got to where you found it. The only forms of gneiss I'm aware of found in Iowa are from the glacial erratics from the ice age.
https://archive.inside.iastate.edu/2005/0311/rock.shtml Guess you could say you found a piece of Canada in Iowa.

Did you find any asparagus?

 

[A2coins]

rock on cool find

 

[Matt 23]

I found a ton of asparagus and over 300 yellow and gray mushrooms this weeknd. O .. And two more rocks too identify....

 

[claypile]

wow first time seeing that kind of rock.

 

[K. FLEMING]

Cool stuff.

 

[Matt 23]

I've been digging around on my flve acres and in a ten foot area i found all this

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It looks like maybe you have glacial till. Rocks pushed in front of a glacier until it stopped and receded.So you could have a lot of rocks not native to your area.

 

[BIGSCOTT]

I wanna see some of the asparaguss and mushrooms

 

[Matt 23]