Hey y'all. I've got a few samples of "rocks" found at the club that I'm curious about. Thought I'd check here. General location is in NC between the Uwharrie and the SC state line.
This first sample was found on the bank of the big creek. It looks different than the rest of the rounded, smooth rocks and triangular stuff generally seen there. Very smooth surfaces. Kindasorta resembled a cheap cut of long grained beef with a fat layer (or mebbe I was just hawngry). The two pieces are roughly double fist size with the one being a bit larger. I knocked one into the other and got a few chips after a coupla whacks. Not really what I'd think of as "conchoidal", but not just crunched, either.
The first tan colored rock is a very fine-grainy black on the inside. And harrrrd. Took 3 or 4 good cracks with the l'il 3# to get a break and it was spraying me pretty hard with shrapnel in the process. It's about the size of my noggin. I was guessing basalt.
The last one was found up on one of the hills in an area laden with a buncha spalls. It's about fist sized and I thought that mebbe one of these days I could play with it so I tried not to bang it very hard. I think I did what would be called an indirect strike to get the l'il chip for an inside peek (punch on a platform, strike the punch?). Chert?
The tan color is from our plentiful "Complimentary Hunt Club Camouflage" that covers anything not in water.
Thanks much for any help satisfying my curiosity. d:^)
This first sample was found on the bank of the big creek. It looks different than the rest of the rounded, smooth rocks and triangular stuff generally seen there. Very smooth surfaces. Kindasorta resembled a cheap cut of long grained beef with a fat layer (or mebbe I was just hawngry). The two pieces are roughly double fist size with the one being a bit larger. I knocked one into the other and got a few chips after a coupla whacks. Not really what I'd think of as "conchoidal", but not just crunched, either.
The first tan colored rock is a very fine-grainy black on the inside. And harrrrd. Took 3 or 4 good cracks with the l'il 3# to get a break and it was spraying me pretty hard with shrapnel in the process. It's about the size of my noggin. I was guessing basalt.
The last one was found up on one of the hills in an area laden with a buncha spalls. It's about fist sized and I thought that mebbe one of these days I could play with it so I tried not to bang it very hard. I think I did what would be called an indirect strike to get the l'il chip for an inside peek (punch on a platform, strike the punch?). Chert?
The tan color is from our plentiful "Complimentary Hunt Club Camouflage" that covers anything not in water.
Thanks much for any help satisfying my curiosity. d:^)
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