fossil?
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subaruseun wrote:
Did you find it?
Dean Slater
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its a rock....
subaruseun wrote:
Molten lava cools down,the outer crust first and the inner crust forms a air bubble,the outer surface has ben broken and reveals the inner hollow,thats what it looks like to me
i agree with mouldie, partly, from the image it looks like a lithic intrusion or contact. My guess would be an igneous layer (lava) intrusion into surrounding sedimentary/possibly metamorphic rock.
Random FYI ~ this is something south africa is kinda famous for, Charles Darwin (the evolution buddy) came to south africa to check it out, with the most famous spot he checked out being here at three anchor bay/mouille point.
Give some more info on the area if you can without disclosing it's location
Random FYI ~ this is something south africa is kinda famous for, Charles Darwin (the evolution buddy) came to south africa to check it out, with the most famous spot he checked out being here at three anchor bay/mouille point.
Give some more info on the area if you can without disclosing it's location
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thanks guys...
yes i found it... quite interesting and looks more real on site.
so for i think we can assume it is a rock that that looks like an occie!
lets see what the experts have to say who has a contact at stellenbosch university?
yes i found it... quite interesting and looks more real on site.
so for i think we can assume it is a rock that that looks like an occie!
lets see what the experts have to say who has a contact at stellenbosch university?
Martin SSS
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I would guess 6000 year old dinosaur eggs????
Oom ebs email me the pics and ill take them to my Prof i had for Geo, im sure he will have more info.
From what i can remember of Geo (which i all forgot as soon as i heard i passed the modules) this leads me to believe that the hole isn't a fossile, well of an octupus atleast (sorry oom Simen). take into consideration how fossils form, a specimen needs to be covered with sediment, often many layers whereby this sediment is compacted into a rock (basic version of how it happens) and so encapsules and preserves the specimen as a part of the rock itself.
An octopus wouldn't fossilize well as it has no bones or exoskeleton. These are parts that fossilize, thats why marine animals such as crabs or fish fossilize well, they have harder features and have the aid of sediment from a marine system and water to compress or aid in compaction of sediment.
This doesn't appear to be sedimentary rock, Maybe a set lava and so i think that maybe a softer form of rock or even organic matter (octopus or fleshy bit) may have incorporated in here and later eroded away faster than surroundinng rock leaving the hole. Another option may be a "pothole", when a pebble, sand or water enters a indent or hole in a rocky area and is swirled around in it by water movement or wind, this will slowly erode away creating a hole. As the hole gets bigger more pebbles/aggregate can be held in the hole and erode it at a greater rate.
As for the eggs (they look promising) but then again may be a harder rock form that had a higher melting point than the rock it is embedded into and so maintained its form of say a "spoelklip". All these are just possibilities that come to my mind.
Ps I don't believe Gustav studies at Stellenbosch but rather UWC and may have some classes at the Stellenbosch medical faculty in Bellville where they lecture on dentistry.
From what i can remember of Geo (which i all forgot as soon as i heard i passed the modules) this leads me to believe that the hole isn't a fossile, well of an octupus atleast (sorry oom Simen). take into consideration how fossils form, a specimen needs to be covered with sediment, often many layers whereby this sediment is compacted into a rock (basic version of how it happens) and so encapsules and preserves the specimen as a part of the rock itself.
An octopus wouldn't fossilize well as it has no bones or exoskeleton. These are parts that fossilize, thats why marine animals such as crabs or fish fossilize well, they have harder features and have the aid of sediment from a marine system and water to compress or aid in compaction of sediment.
This doesn't appear to be sedimentary rock, Maybe a set lava and so i think that maybe a softer form of rock or even organic matter (octopus or fleshy bit) may have incorporated in here and later eroded away faster than surroundinng rock leaving the hole. Another option may be a "pothole", when a pebble, sand or water enters a indent or hole in a rocky area and is swirled around in it by water movement or wind, this will slowly erode away creating a hole. As the hole gets bigger more pebbles/aggregate can be held in the hole and erode it at a greater rate.
As for the eggs (they look promising) but then again may be a harder rock form that had a higher melting point than the rock it is embedded into and so maintained its form of say a "spoelklip". All these are just possibilities that come to my mind.
Ps I don't believe Gustav studies at Stellenbosch but rather UWC and may have some classes at the Stellenbosch medical faculty in Bellville where they lecture on dentistry.
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Aitog...n Daiwa....glad you've seen the light! Maybe too much of it LOL
golden eggs!
Aitog...n Daiwa....glad you've seen the light! Maybe too much of it LOL