Dill, stick to moody Almonds.
Dill, stick to moody Almonds.
Those look really good Mendip!
Turn it into a Lazy Susan and never get short shrifted with the peas ever again
Won't that black colour get red hot outside?
Looks a bit hot in that corner too. A nice sala to sit up in and catch a draft and sup your Leo would be more comfortable.
Go on, you know you deserve it
^ Yeah, sorry it wasn't a fossilised bird. But where would they have built their nests with no fossilised trees?
Just stand back a while... I know you're disappointed but you're one if the first people ever to see the inside of that tree... and it's 800,000 years old! Makes you think.
And you can stick that silly sala!
Not that one. But one would go great next to your pond.
It wasn't all in vain, loads of subliminal in there and we got to the dog porn in the end
We have mate, a proper one! Check out my fishing thread.
And yeah, a thread needs dog porn I think!
I told my daughter there was a nasty man on the internet called 'Dillinger' who didn't think too much of her petrified wood, and she said, 'OK, let's show him...'
So we went fossicking in the garden today.
Early on... we found a 520 million year old trilobite. Now that is old...
Then we found a 240 million year old ammonite...
To finish up we went down by the pond, and found a 50 million year old fossilised fish!
Good enough... Mr Dillinger?
Nice result. It’s always satisfying when you can take a dull rock and reveal its beauty by polishing it.
I use polishing pads like that at work to finish the edges of stone.
That black marble is called Nero Marquina popular back home for fireplace surrounds
^ So, you're in the industry... fascinating!
I'm a geologist, but of course that can lead to many different avenues. When I go to these places I like to think I now what I'm on about... but of course I haven't a clue... gemstones from Sri Lanka, etc etc
The black marble just looked beautiful to me... I guess the veins are calcite?
Out of curiosity... what would a circular, metre diameter, approx 25mm thick slab of black marble cost in The States, Mike? This one was 2000 Baht, or about £48 (post Brexit)...
I’m a tile contractor so working with stone materials quite often. One of the shops I buy from is also making counter tops and stuff so I walk back there a few times a week. It’s cool to see all the slabs of stone stacked up from all over the world. The most interesting looking stuff seems to come from Brazil.
That round top you bought would probably be in the $60-70 a square foot range at home. So that price you paid is great. I guess it’s the cheap labor here.
The thread was very interesting, thanks, Mendip.
It seems that Nok and Som do a betty job than Somchai and Somsak - I'm certain that Somchai and Somsak would have cut some corners and broken your 800,000 years old (allegedly) but of wood. Lots of good pictures during the process. I'm a little bit with Dilly insomuchas the end result looked like a bit of wood. But, the three items your daughter are holding look great, especially the third one which is clearly a piece of french bread with a bit of fish out of your pond...
Cycling should be banned!!!
^ French bread!
The end result looked like a bit of wood... because it was a bit of wood! A bit of 800,000 year old petrified wood!
A couple of 140 million year old coprolites to you for doubting!
^Top fossicking there Mendip
Jeff will be on it like a car bonnet
Thanks for an interesting and informative thread Mendip.
I've encouraged my daughter to take GCSE Geography because of it.
GCSE in geology? Shouldn't that take a week within the geography syllabus?
I mean, rocks and stuff are a bit interesting, but what would any advanced society get from that stuff? Petrochemical plastics GCSE - that should be mandatory for all students, imho.
^ And how would they make the petrochemical plastics without a lowly geologist to find the oil in the first place!
Anyway... the daughter wanted to visit the Korat Petrified Wood Museum yesterday. Yes, she continues to make me proud!
I took along a piece of our petrified tree trunk and it has been confirmed as 800,000 years old. Here are some similar examples from the local area.
A very nice girl museum worker took us 'behind the scenes' where a petrified tree trunk is currently being excavated. This is lying in-situ where it fell and has lain for nearly a million years. Makes you think!
Not sure the daughter should have been balancing on such an ancient exhibit, but it made for a good picture!
By understanding the Abiogenic theory? https://www.intechopen.com/books/hyd...sits-formation
^ I don't go for that myself, as don't the vast majority of geologists.
But... the guys who suggested it are an awful lot cleverer than I'll ever be.
I'm undecided, has its points, there was a lot off deadness in history if its not partially true!
This is an interesting video, whether it is factual or not? The guy talking is Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, amongst other roles he was Kennedy's Chief of staff, been dead at least 20 years.
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