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Strange looking stone.

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  • 13-02-2011 2:04pm
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    Dony
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭


    Found this the other day while walking on the beach right in at the dunes so maybe it was washed in but who knows.

    Curious look about it. Looks to have a honeycombed pattern on it.

    All I can say is, its seems to be made from granite because of the sparkles when held at certain angles to the light.

    Check out the pics.


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    Bodhisopha
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    Fossil, innit?


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    reverenddave
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    petrified beehive ?????


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    Dony
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭Dony


    reverenddave wrote: »
    petrified beehive ?????

    Funnliy enough that ran through my mind. Surely not.:eek:


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    reverenddave
    Registered Users Posts: 805 ✭✭✭reverenddave


    Dony wrote: »
    Funnliy enough that ran through my mind. Surely not.:eek:


    done a bit more research just now

    it's actually fossilized coral
    you can tell by the 5 sided hexagons :D
    whereas a beehive would have 6 sided hexagons :D

    50384_submission_image_818_medium.jpg

    JCS%20Favosites%20sp%2030019.jpg
    JCS%20Favosites%20sp%2030021.jpg


    Google the word Favosites
    and you'll find a bit more reading


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    Dony
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭Dony


    Wow! Thanks a mill for that.
    Really interesting.
    Some of honeycombing has six sides but there you go.
    It being coral would make a lot more sense.

    Maybe this should be moved to the paleontology forum if thats the case.
    Seen as its now extinct etc.

    Gardineroseris planulata


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    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    reverenddave wrote: »
    ...you can tell by the 5 sided hexagons :D
    whereas a beehive would have 6 sided hexagons :D

    ...

    I know I'm a bit anal here but:

    a 5 sided polygon is called a pentagon

    a 6 sided polygon is called a hexagon

    ;)


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    reverenddave
    Registered Users Posts: 805 ✭✭✭reverenddave


    Preusse wrote: »
    I know I'm a bit anal here but:

    a 5 sided polygon is called a pentagon

    a 6 sided polygon is called a hexagon

    ;)


    Hence the smiley :D


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