Another oddball

[UpNorth]

I found this funky looking thing a number of years back, in a ravine while tracking a deer. Thoughts as to what it is? Best I can come up with is melted glass. Found the deer the next morning, unfortunately the coyotes found it first.

[paohrocks]

Can't help ya Up-north, but it's a neat looking whatever it is...not a fan of coyotes...

[Hoss]

Looks like some kind of agate to me. I doubt it is Fordite. Pretty cool specimen. Is it solid between the layers or does it seem to be eroded out between the white lines? It very well could be melted glass.

[UpNorth]

Solid and smooth between the lines, the lines look like aluminum to me. Unlike any agate I have seen up here. Head scratcher for sure...... thanks for looking hoss✌️

[painshill]

Neat specimens.

This is very clearly fossilised marine debris... of a kind sometimes designated as 'reef deposits'.

The large indentations are the inner sides of bivalves and some of them are clearly oyster shells. There are a number of striations and cellular structures which are obviously organic (a few examples ringed below). Mostly they seem to be shell fragments, perhaps with some plant debris, but the twig-like structure with a mesh-like surface pattern ringed at the left of the second picture is a bryozoan.




The preservation is unusual, but it looks like the matrix cementing the debris together was a heavily stratified sediment and has become agatized.

[Cecilia]

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[UpNorth]

Painshill... thanks for taking your time and answering my un-solved mystery. Your knowledge is very much appreciated. Enjoy the wknd and stay safe!.....👍

[antmike915]

very cool, what ever it may be.