A pilgrimage across southern England

[Edmond]

[Reg Dingle]

And straight into the town's roughest and cheapest boozer



80 baht for a pint of Worthies Creamflow

[malmomike77]

[Edmond]

Looks alright. Nice creamy head as it's starting to settle. Looks like that Kilkenny stuff that got me onto stout for a few years.

[Joe 90]

Looks alright. Nice creamy head as it's starting to settle. Looks like that Kilkenny stuff that got me onto stout for a few years.

It's only about £2 a pint here as well.

If you Keep watching that shower of shite on the TV Dill you'll end up getting wankered on £20 and gate crashing the tent at closing time

[Mendip]

... I know what ammonites are (but then I have a science background). They're the ancestors of present day molluscs.

Well done Katie... you go straight to the top of the class!

Had to Google what an ammonite was

But let's face it, the bar wasn't exactly high!

I soaked the ammonite in vinegar overnight but all it seemed to do was attract a few early season wasps. I gave it another good scrub and it's coming up nicely.



There is little doubt that this is a pyrite ammonite. Pyrite is iron sulphide (FeS2).

"Pyritisation can happen to fossils in sediment saturated with iron sulfides. Sulfides are produced by decaying organisms and can react with iron to form pyrite (FeS₂) which can take the place of the calcium carbonate".

This is a close up of the surface of my ammonite.



And a piece of the mudstone that I chipped off. You can see why pyrite is also called fool's gold.



The problem is, all I am really doing is cleaning off the surrounding mudstone from the pyrite concretions. I need to get below the concretions to find something like this (hopefully)...



Or if I get it cut like my fossilised wood, like this.



But anyway, for now I'm trying bathing it in this patio cleaner I found at the local builder's merchant. They suggest hydrogen peroxide on the internet but I couldn't find any and this patio cleaner is basically just a 10% hydrochloric acid solution which should dissolve the calcium carbonate in the mudstone. I added a lot of water to make the first bath maybe a 3 or 4% solution.

When I put the ammonite in the acid bath there was a lot of fizzing and bubbles so something was certainly happening.



After a couple of hours I took it out but there still wasn't much change so I've upped the acid concentration overnight.



Edit: I see this thread has moved on and there's me still clapping on about ammonites and pyrite. Sorry about that.

I'd better go and find a tin of Thatchers!

[Mendip]

Talking of rides, think I just spotted Eddie's Ms Mbudga

I don't fancy yours much!

[malmomike77]

I'd better go and find a tin of Thatchers!

Would you, Dill is posting up pics of shit beer with shaving foam on top, fookign norvern minkey.

I don't fancy yours much!

I don't fancy either. You'll peel off the wrapper and find a Lulu waz eer tatt.

[DrWilly]

Edit: I see this thread has moved on and there's me still clapping on about ammonites and pyrite. Sorry about that.

I'd better go and find a tin of Thatchers!

conveniently missing the revelation that you ate a donkey burger, or an ass burger, if you will:


But on a more serious note the acid will react with the calcium carbonate and turn to water, as it’s a neutralization reaction. You need to keep changing the acid or vinegar at as it reacts and disappears with that enormous mass of rock.

[Joe 90]

But on a more serious note the acid will react with the calcium carbonate and turn to water, as it’s a neutralization reaction. You need to keep changing the acid or vinegar at as it reacts and disappears with that enormous mass of rock.

When did you become a Geography teacher

[Headworx]

^Must. Resist.

[BLD]

When did you become a Geography teacher

About the same time you became a master chef? Lol

[armstrong]

When did you become a Geography teacher

Willy trying to teach a geologist how to work stones.

[bsnub]

About the same time you became a master chef? Lol

[Edmond]

the acid will react with the calcium carbonate and turn to water, as it’s a neutralization reaction. You need to keep changing the acid or vinegar at as it reacts and disappears with that enormous mass of rock.

Would it not be a science lesson rather than geography?

[Joe 90]

A level Geography incorporates geology.

[hallelujah]

This thread is even better than expected! Absolutely wonderful stuff, mendip.

And some quality humorous input from the usual suspects too.

When Teakdoor gets it right with these photo threads, it really does get it right.

[Edmond]

A level Geography incorporates geology.

Does the incorporated geology incorporate lessons on chemical reactions?

[BLD]

Does the incorporated geology incorporate lessons on chemical reactions?

Its incorporated with a domestic science element also? Sponsored by Asda and sainsburys? Markdowns r us

[BLD]

A level Geography incorporates geology.

Out of greens joe

[Joe 90]

Ye may mock me but I know my shit..





Anyway fookers, I'm off out to buy a bbq and burn something


Nice day for a trip around a museum Mendip as its pissing down, oh and there's another train strike next week which has scuppered my travel plans to London.

[Edmond]

No Posting photos online for dummies book?

[Joe 90]

No Posting photos online for dummies book?

There's a separate edition for posting on TD

[Topper]

Thanks Mendip, I'm enjoying the thread immensely.

[malmomike77]

Ye may mock me but I know my shit..

Being in possession of the book may be 9/10ths of the law as far as ownership is concerned but it don't mean you'm passed the exam , think of it like Symp with his 2/2, really that just means he can speak English...sort of.