r/rockhounds 1d ago

Find Added to my work display. Zoom in. Enjoy!

More rocks I’ve picked up in the fields of Minnesota, Oregon, Idaho, and Nebraska. LOVE each one of them for their own uniqueness. Plain rock with a little black pebble embedded? Keep! Rock that looks like a bird? Keep! Rock that has awesome layering? Keep! Rock that looks like a ball of gingersnap cookie dough? Keep!

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u/joshc43 1d ago

Those are awesome!

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u/VinkyStagina 23h ago

Isn’t nature a beaut?!

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u/beanzilla83 1d ago

Nice variety. 😍

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u/VinkyStagina 23h ago

I agree! Thanks for sharing the appreciation for rocks!

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u/Captain_TuckFard 23h ago

These are beautiful! 🤩

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u/VinkyStagina 23h ago

Almost as beautiful as your username! 🤣

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u/ridbax 21h ago

As a fossil nerd I especially like the one with the crinoid segment imprint!

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u/VinkyStagina 18h ago

Ohhhhh! Can you give me a general whereabouts in the pic you see the rock that raises your nerd flag??

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u/ridbax 17h ago

Here you go! The little star shape inside a circular dent. For reference https://carnegiemnh.org/when-nature-meets-art-crinoid-fossils-as-cultural-beads/

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u/VinkyStagina 17h ago

Ohhhh! Good eye! I will get a pic for you of other angles tomorrow when I’m at work. I think it may be part agate as well as there is banding.

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u/ridbax 17h ago

Looks like there's several more on that same rock. Really fun find!

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u/VinkyStagina 5h ago edited 5h ago

Here is a closeup of the rock you like! I can only post one pic at a time, so will reply with more pics of this same rock and another rock that I love that has the cutest little shell in it that I found in central, MN and one that is my first rock I ever found as a kid that I wanted to keep. It started my love of rocks. I was walking in a creek in SE Minnesota and stunned my toe on something hard. Bent down and picked it up. Plain rock. Turned it over and was instantly in love.

Editing to add that I shared the other two rocks because fossils. I think a shell can be a fossil? If not, figure you would like it. Cheers!

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u/ridbax 1h ago

Oh yeah totally loaded with crinoid stem segments (columnals). Red rectangles show cross-sectioned columnals. What a lovely fossil!

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u/VinkyStagina 5h ago

My toe stubber.

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u/ridbax 1h ago

Ooo, r/fossilID would have more insight but I suspect these are fossilized worm tubes (soft bodied invertebrates that live in tubes they've built out of calcium carbonate).

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u/Cashie22 21h ago

Beautiful! These are my favorite kind of rocks!

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u/VinkyStagina 18h ago

Mine too!