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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Bruce Mines Puddingstone Aug 4^th, 2014 at 9:53am	Print Post
	I was looking at an old issue of Rock & Gem and noticed an article on Bruce Mines Puddingstone (Feb 2009). Here's a good site with pictures and information on the Bruce Mines Puddingstone: http://www.rocksforkids.com/R&M/pudding_stone.htm Joe, I know you have a "Puddingstone" that's more local. Perhaps you can post a picture so we can see the difference between these two.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Bruce Mines Puddingstone Reply #1 - Aug 5^th, 2014 at 8:26am	Print Post
	I think it's safe to say all "Pudding stone" are conglomerates. The size of the formations may vary quite a bit, but in the end they are comprised by clasts of mostly rounded gravel "cemented by silicone and iron bearing waters". The "famous" Tennessee Pudding Stone was a layer dug thru at an old iron mine in Tennessee, so the brown chocolate looking cement has a slight silvery metallic sheen to it when polished. The clasts are mostly rounded pebbles of chert. Here are some pics of Tennessee Pudding Stone with one piece of a local NC layer of conglomerate, or pudding stone. Some pudding stone is just prettier than others.
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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Bruce Mines Puddingstone Reply #2 - Aug 5^th, 2014 at 8:36pm	Print Post
	I was wondering if anyone would have a comment about my use of the word "silicone" in the quotation marked words of my first paragraph above. It is a direct quote from the history of Bruce Mines Puddingstone from the link Scott provided. Where's an editor when you need one!


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Bruce Mines Puddingstone Reply #3 - Aug 6^th, 2014 at 3:29pm	Print Post
	Silicone?

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Bruce Mines Puddingstone Reply #4 - Aug 6^th, 2014 at 5:45pm	Print Post
	Well, almost.........glasscone! Depends on the manufacturer of the glass as to whether it has any "silicone" in it. I was just trying to point out that Geology for Kids used the word "silicone" incorrectly when describing the formation of the Pudding stone. Silicone is a synthetic product. They should have used the words silica, or silicon, or silicon dioxide.


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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Bruce Mines Puddingstone Reply #5 - Aug 7^th, 2014 at 10:46pm	Print Post
	I didn't know there was a silicone. Which in the case of the website, probably misspelled. It is just that I didn't realize "silicone" was a word.

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NCGrampa Full Member Offline www.RockHoundLounge. com Posts: 162 Location: Gastonia, NC Joined: Jan 19^th, 2012 Gender:	Re: Bruce Mines Puddingstone Reply #6 - Aug 8^th, 2014 at 8:27am	Print Post
	Ah yes the stuff they used in breast enhancements... or as I call it Silly Cones.

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