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Strange rock

  • 18-10-2019 09:30PM
    #1
    JJayoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭


    Hiya guys

    Found this unusual rock a few miles up a mountain. It should out because it was sitting beside an old drain that might have been dug a few decades ago.

    There are a few very small bits of quartz, or what looks like quartz, in it.


Comments

  • #2
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,229 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    It's a piece of limestone. If limestone is not the native bedrock, then it may have been introduced as fill for the drain.


  • #3
    JJayoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭JJayoo


    slowburner wrote: »
    It's a piece of limestone. If limestone is not the native bedrock, then it may have been introduced as fill for the drain.

    No limestone in the area, I doubt it would have been added as there are some streams running close by and you could get plenty of stone out of the river.

    I just thought it was odd looking because off the numerous 'pointy' bits.


  • #4
    blackplum123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭blackplum123


    Heres a rock I found in wicklow . Out part shows a square with what looks like a rusty square . There are more rust squares through the rock when it was broken open.
    Any ideas how the are formed.


  • #5
    blackplum123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭blackplum123


    another photo


  • #6
    Feets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Feets


    I don't know about the wicklow rock, but your camera quality is unreal.


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