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Reply #30 - Jan 12th, 2020 at 9:12am
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Chuck of red 3
  

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Reply #31 - Jan 12th, 2020 at 9:13am
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Chunk of red 3
  

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Reply #32 - Jan 12th, 2020 at 9:13am
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Jasper green?
  

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Reply #33 - Jan 12th, 2020 at 9:14am
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Inclusions
  

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Reply #34 - Jan 12th, 2020 at 9:15am
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Bluish white waxy looking material
  

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Reply #35 - Jan 12th, 2020 at 9:15am
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Bluish white material again
  

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Reply #36 - Jan 12th, 2020 at 9:16am
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Clear material with white husk
  

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Reply #37 - Jan 12th, 2020 at 9:20am
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More material
  

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Re: Hamilton County
Reply #38 - Jan 12th, 2020 at 9:46pm
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Well shoot, MrClammy, that must be half the rock in the County! Wink
Thanks for all the pictures. You've got a nice collection there!
About 90% looks to be agate, cryptocrystaline quartz, chalcedony, which are all different names for the same thing.  Some of it is real nice looking agate. You have some real healthy looking pieces of the red. We were just talking about what causes the different colors and types of agate in the "Identifying Your Specimen" section above. Take a look at the most recent entries.
The "bumpy" texture on some of the pieces is a good thing to look for. It is called "Botryoidal" and is actually a common mineral formation. Here's a Wiki- link;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botryoidal
Google "Botryoidal chalcedony" for images.

You have to wonder what that big "log" piece looks like inside but it's so perfect the way it is!

I'm guessing the little brown round ball you have pictured is a concretion something like these;
http://earthinsightcache.blogspot.com/2008/10/fossil-cannonballs.html

You have a lot of nice rocks there but that's a few too many for me to deal with at one time. Tongue

  
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Re: Hamilton County
Reply #39 - Jan 13th, 2020 at 10:07am
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Nice finds MrClammy!  Joe is spot on with his comments.  All but three of the photos are of agates or varieties of cryptocrystalline quartz.  The round object is clearly a concretion.  It looks very similar to what have been dubbed "Moqui Marbles" found in Utah sandstone. The interesting thing about those is they have a weak magnetic pull, that you can feel if you hold two of them close to each other.  I doubt yours would have that quality but it might be interesting just to check with a magnet.  The long roundish specimen with the patterned pitted surface is a fossilized tree limb cast, probably of the lepidodendrum species (Giant Club Moss Tree), but I am no authority on these.  That is a very nice piece, I have a couple of similar ones in my rock shop.  Your state geologists will be able to easily ID it for you.  The third one is the bleached white coral.  It does not look like a fossil at all, but a weathered piece of recent coral that did not come from Hamilton County.  It is so clean, white and well preserved compared to the other examples of Tennessee fossil corals.  Had it been found in recent formations, say of Eocene or Miocene age, and it was found in Florida or on the North Carolina coast, I could possibly accept it as a fossil, but in my humble opinion that piece has been brought in from elsewhere.
  
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Reply #40 - Jan 15th, 2020 at 6:28am
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Reply #41 - Jan 16th, 2020 at 2:33pm
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Thank you Joe and laurie for taking the time to help me Id my rocks. helps out alot! Also the coral I found was from a creek in Hixson I've been hunting. If it is true the bleached corals only occur in NC and Florida I'd say it's probably been thrown aside by another person. and somehow found its way into my hands.
  
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Reply #42 - Jan 16th, 2020 at 2:33pm
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I will also check out the links, thank you for all the usefully information guys.
  
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Reply #43 - Feb 11th, 2020 at 5:11am
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These are not local to Red Bank.   there are a couple of agates that look like they are from Memphis area or eastern Arkansas.   Most likely the rocks were left by a former rockhound
  
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Reply #44 - Feb 11th, 2020 at 5:16am
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Sorry New to the forum and did not realize I was posting to page 3.   My previous response it to dirtslingers original series of agate images.
  
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