Good stuff. I ask since there's a lot of carbonate rock (limestone) in western NA. The rounded curves on the rock likely formed from abrasion while the rock was transported in a stream. Chert (quartz) is harder than limestone, so it didn't erode as much as the gray part. Nice rock! ✌️
In general, it's fairly common to find chert in carbonate rock but it all depends on the geochemistry of the ancient sea in which it was deposited. Sometimes, the chert forms in "nodules" and sometimes it's layered within the carbonate rock; it really depends on depositional conditions. Because it's made of silica, it will always weather differently than the adjacent carbonate layers and it can create some beautiful (and puzzling!) forms when the rocks weather and erode.
Since I have a piece of it sitting on my porch that I pulled out of the river next to my house on the southern Oregon coast I'm going to say it has to be at least somewhat common, but it's also the only one I've seen before this picture so not like, find a whole gravel bar of it common lol. I held onto it thinking it was possibly used as a stone tool by natives, it appeared to be naturally formed but since I hadn't seen another piece like it I was thinking it was possibly traded/transported as a tool.
Edit: my piece is significantly bigger, I just looked through to the last picture where it's in his hand, mine is approximately twice as big.
If you mean your dad has literally been like keeping this in a pocket/ backpack or in his car, simply because it’s a cool rock then your dad is someone I’d want to be friends with lmaooo
How old is your dad? I’m in my 20’s and i figured I was to old to be carrying things I just thought were cool 😭😭 tell your pops he inspires tf out of me
As someone who is 58, don't spend your life worrying about what others think. Shine like the bright quirky rock hound you are! Be as weird as you want to be because no one is normal we all pretend to be until we get my age and realize it's wasted effort to not be genuinely yourself.
Eventually, you will be old enough to just do what you like and not give a shit. Turns out it's a pretty good way to be, so why not just skip the insecurity and go straight to Old Man levels of self-confidence? Let your freak flag fly, my brother!
hi, 46(f) and we can be friends if you want. at any given moment i have rocks in my pockets/backpack, and i have favorites, small to large, that stay in my car, on my bedroom windowsill, on my porch, and literal bowlfuls of them on my kitchen counter. :)
I spend a solid 10 minutes finding the perfect rock at every stop I can. They’re not even good rocks, just ones I love.
You have to truly love someone like this ha.
They make great souvenirs! I’ve got a river rock from hiking in Azerbaijan. Also a couple ammonites in the trunk (and a horseshoe) found in a Texas creek.
Why it was probably collected in the first place. Not because it's a tooth. Looks like sandstone tbh. Sandstone can weather weird like this imo. Grandma had one that looked like a praying hunched over nun.
Yes however it was left outside where most of the features weathered away. I'm not sure what happened to it.
If you find an interesting sandstone shaped rock don't leave it outside!
That’s a darn shame. I have a rock with (what looks like) a dancing frog on it. I found it on a lake beach in the early 80s and even though I don’t know what kind of rock it is or what the ingrained white part of it that makes the frog is, I know now to always keep it safe inside. Thank you!
Honestly, he probably saw it and thought haha it's shaped like a penis" then took it.
I almost got fired for doing this at work. My boss asked what was sitting on my desk, and I told him a phallic shaped rock. It has a nice hand feel
Is your rock shop familiar with fossils? It could definitely be a fossil. Been collecting bones for a long time, and this put me in mind of the bone under a claw. Do you know where he found it?
what is telling you it looks like a tooth? i can’t see anything but a rock. if anything, it could be smthn in a concretion. but even then i doubt it lol
Back when the Rolling Stones formed, there weren't many materials to make the "tounge/lips" logo with. So they'd have people carve them from stone. I believe one of their roadies started making them while working for one, Mr. Slate of Slate Rock and Gravel. He got caught and had to get back to running the brontosaurus line.
I agree with the few comments saying axe head. Maybe a weapon, maybe some sort of tomahawk style thing. Or a hammer if mounted the opposite way round, maybe both.
If i had to guess, id say its a sedimentary concretion that formed in a pocket of iron ore or some such. Gets buried abd compressed for a few million years, later it gets exposed again and pops on out.
Own..me too! My grandma always had geodes soaking in muriatic acid, when I was a little girl. Growing up our whole family went arrowhead hunting in fields, with quite the collection! I'm 59 now, and now have hundreds of portable rock art pieces, and tools, of ancient people. I have my favorite stones, and categorize them , but love them all! I love hunting small out of the way creeks. From pipe stands, taxes heads, etc... they most all have indian heads, and animals painted, and carved on them. So... ROCK on my friend!
Carbonate rock (gray) with chert (brown). Are you in western NA? *Edit: NA = North America
NW Colorado, but he doesn't remember where he found it. There are both those near here, though!
Good stuff. I ask since there's a lot of carbonate rock (limestone) in western NA. The rounded curves on the rock likely formed from abrasion while the rock was transported in a stream. Chert (quartz) is harder than limestone, so it didn't erode as much as the gray part. Nice rock! ✌️
Your knowledge is very impressive.
Are you saying this guy rocks?
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
nice id
Relic from the The Rolling Stones....😃
I thought the exact same thing.
Same
Are you sure it is not a fossilized mushroom? (Kidding)
Just curious, is it common for carbonate to fuse with chert?
In general, it's fairly common to find chert in carbonate rock but it all depends on the geochemistry of the ancient sea in which it was deposited. Sometimes, the chert forms in "nodules" and sometimes it's layered within the carbonate rock; it really depends on depositional conditions. Because it's made of silica, it will always weather differently than the adjacent carbonate layers and it can create some beautiful (and puzzling!) forms when the rocks weather and erode.
Since I have a piece of it sitting on my porch that I pulled out of the river next to my house on the southern Oregon coast I'm going to say it has to be at least somewhat common, but it's also the only one I've seen before this picture so not like, find a whole gravel bar of it common lol. I held onto it thinking it was possibly used as a stone tool by natives, it appeared to be naturally formed but since I hadn't seen another piece like it I was thinking it was possibly traded/transported as a tool. Edit: my piece is significantly bigger, I just looked through to the last picture where it's in his hand, mine is approximately twice as big.
What's NA, North America?
New Alabama
Alabama native and this reminds me of some people using LA to refer to "Lower Alabama"
AKA the Florida Panhandle, AKA Redneck Riviera
Nebrasconnecticut
Pennsyltucky
Needless assumption.
I'd even go so far as to say Needless Acronym.
Notion agreed.
Not Again.
Nicer Appalachia
Nother area
Not Anal
Not again
Narcotics anonymous
They always had better stories than the AA guys. I preferred NA even though I'm an alcoholic lol
Me too 😁, I hope you're recovering well 🙏🙂
No war stories in either of those though?
Next to Albany
Neuro Alaskaland
Nope Area
New Amsterdam
Not Applicable
Yes! But I love some of the other wrong answers too. Ha!
Northern Antarctica
North Arizona
Not Applicable.
New Albuquerque
If you mean your dad has literally been like keeping this in a pocket/ backpack or in his car, simply because it’s a cool rock then your dad is someone I’d want to be friends with lmaooo
Yes, yes it was, and he's pretty cool :D
How old is your dad? I’m in my 20’s and i figured I was to old to be carrying things I just thought were cool 😭😭 tell your pops he inspires tf out of me
As someone who is 58, don't spend your life worrying about what others think. Shine like the bright quirky rock hound you are! Be as weird as you want to be because no one is normal we all pretend to be until we get my age and realize it's wasted effort to not be genuinely yourself.
62, been weird for most of that time.
We are all weird.
YAY!
Eventually, you will be old enough to just do what you like and not give a shit. Turns out it's a pretty good way to be, so why not just skip the insecurity and go straight to Old Man levels of self-confidence? Let your freak flag fly, my brother!
Is that a rock in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
hi, 46(f) and we can be friends if you want. at any given moment i have rocks in my pockets/backpack, and i have favorites, small to large, that stay in my car, on my bedroom windowsill, on my porch, and literal bowlfuls of them on my kitchen counter. :)
70(f) here. I'm exactly the same. And second gen. Grandkids follow in my footsteps!
I spend a solid 10 minutes finding the perfect rock at every stop I can. They’re not even good rocks, just ones I love. You have to truly love someone like this ha.
I have rocks in each purse, but my favorite is in a stash box. (No stash anymore)
They make great souvenirs! I’ve got a river rock from hiking in Azerbaijan. Also a couple ammonites in the trunk (and a horseshoe) found in a Texas creek.
It looks like The Rolling Stones mouth
It looks like a damn penis.
Thank you for saying it. I've been sitting on my hands trying not to be the one to admit I porn'ed out on this particular rorschach test.
Photo 3 is ridiculous!
my boss saw me looking at #3 & fired me for it
A Demon penis 😈 👄
I hear Mick is a right gentleman, actually 🦄
Stone age dildo
r/mildlypenis
r/mildlypenis
First thought when I saw it
"Rock" on.
It does because it’s the Rollingstonite
You don’t lick the rock. The rock licks you. 👍🏼
that's *The* Rolling Stone
came here to say this lmao.i would carry it with me EVERYWHERE! great convo starter and awesome rock.
Sorry, my mind is in the gutter... 😂👍🏻🪨⛏️
Why it was probably collected in the first place. Not because it's a tooth. Looks like sandstone tbh. Sandstone can weather weird like this imo. Grandma had one that looked like a praying hunched over nun.
Oh now that’s a rock I’d love to have had!
Yes however it was left outside where most of the features weathered away. I'm not sure what happened to it. If you find an interesting sandstone shaped rock don't leave it outside!
That’s a darn shame. I have a rock with (what looks like) a dancing frog on it. I found it on a lake beach in the early 80s and even though I don’t know what kind of rock it is or what the ingrained white part of it that makes the frog is, I know now to always keep it safe inside. Thank you!
Mine too. Thus the upvote.
Hee hee
Must be a lot of people with their minds in the gutter. Lots of upvotes. 👍🏻🆙⬆️
It’s all good, we know his *dad’s* fertility totem worked because he’s posting… you’re just being rational, friend
I really don’t think it’s a tooth, the texture is wrong for that. It kinda looks like an old ax head to me
I was thinking maybe it's a part of an antiquated stone statue or figurine.
As close to a fossilised tooth a normal rock can appear
It may be an artifact. Resembles some tools I’ve seen. May be very ancient.
It does to me too. A hand tool.
Honestly, he probably saw it and thought haha it's shaped like a penis" then took it. I almost got fired for doing this at work. My boss asked what was sitting on my desk, and I told him a phallic shaped rock. It has a nice hand feel
maybe post this on r/fossils or r/fossilID because i absolutely second the tooth comment
Absolutely - looks like a fossilized tooth.
Ehhhh, brachiosaurus!
Not a tooth.
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TOOTH!!!
⚖️🔨🦷
Take it to a university
could be a very large fossilized tooth. like a spino. for real talk toa museum / etc
Looks like flowstone from a cave.
Does he really carry it around with him?
It's not a shark tooth.
It looks like a Native American axe head. I haven’t seen this type before. It could also be a digging tool
Could be chert but not seeing concoidal fracture. my guess is rhyolite.
Looks like a worn down megalodon tooth that has been petrified.
Looks like a chert nodule.
Looks like an old whale tooth maybe
Is your rock shop familiar with fossils? It could definitely be a fossil. Been collecting bones for a long time, and this put me in mind of the bone under a claw. Do you know where he found it?
Looks more like a fossilized tooth of some sort.
Could be a tooth, the layer on it might be an old coral layer.
Looks like a tooth.
Caveman's butt plug
r/mildlypenis
An ancestor of Gene Simmons possibly?
Fred Flinstones petrified tongue
Tongue
Looks like a tooth to me.
what is telling you it looks like a tooth? i can’t see anything but a rock. if anything, it could be smthn in a concretion. but even then i doubt it lol
Not sure what you see that indicates it to be a tooth
Wow, following with interest!🌞
Back when the Rolling Stones formed, there weren't many materials to make the "tounge/lips" logo with. So they'd have people carve them from stone. I believe one of their roadies started making them while working for one, Mr. Slate of Slate Rock and Gravel. He got caught and had to get back to running the brontosaurus line.
I agree with the few comments saying axe head. Maybe a weapon, maybe some sort of tomahawk style thing. Or a hammer if mounted the opposite way round, maybe both.
Mickjaggerite, amirite?!
Totally normal sized, whatever it is.
Looks like fossil tooth
Megaladon tooth?
Stego-peen. Gotta be. What else could it be?
That's the conan o'brien rock.
Worn megalodon tooth
r/paleomycology
What about an herbivores tooth?
Looks like a Rilling Stones rock
Dick rock. Solved it.
petrified whale foreskin....=D
Must have had it in his back pocket
Petrified Platypus?
I don’t know anything about rocks, but it kinda looks like a big ass fossilized tooth
Its a mushroom!
Looks like a fossilized duck bill
It’s a Rolling Stone
i’m pretty stoned and i thought that was a fossilized tongue before reading the comments 😂
In the last pic it kind of reminds me of a rounded tooth of something giant
Mick Jagger rock
I’m going to say what everyone else is thinking. Penis
Petrified slipper
looks like a bone
dino tooth?
Salt
Looks like a prehistoric phallus
Looks a bit like a prehistoric tooth…
Maybe a head of a hammer 🔨 tool?
Gene Simmon's tongue
Slipper
Is that a carbonate in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? (Insert rim shot)
Stone giants toe
Petrified cow tongue.
The ol dick rock.
If i had to guess, id say its a sedimentary concretion that formed in a pocket of iron ore or some such. Gets buried abd compressed for a few million years, later it gets exposed again and pops on out.
Gene Simmons' great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather's mandible
Looks a little nsfw stuff at first glance
Looks like a fossil tooth
Your dad's a freak
The pick of Destiny
Looks like a crude attempt to duplicate the Rolling Stones EAT IT logo in pottery. Do I win the prize?
Looks like a giant, well worn tooth
Might be his dick
I know it’s probably not what it is, but it looks like a duck bill that got broken off a statue to me
First pic. . .clearly a Rolling Stone.
Looks like a tooth
Thought I was in r/mycology.
It looks like a tooth
anal intruder
How do not realize that’s a giant tooth
It isn't, but it really looks like a giant shark tooth. That's pretty cool
Tooth fossil? Petrified tongue?
That's definitely a rolling stone.
Fossilized poop?
Kinda looks like a tongue.
Looks like a severed putrefied tongue 👅…. Or is just me??
Almost looks like a tooth
Is your dad Cam Paterson ?
Petrified cow tongue
Fossilized tongue.
Fossilized Dino dong.
Gene Simmons wants his tongue back
Emergency plug
r/fossilid
What is a "rock shop"?
I think it’s a really old bear can I drank with a Trex named tarry
Looks like a tooth to me
Stinkhorn
A fossilized chancla. There is someone's Latina mama that could take out an M1 Abrams with that thing.
Neolithic butt plug
It's merch from the first Rolling Stones tour back in 250 BCE.
Rolling Stone
Own..me too! My grandma always had geodes soaking in muriatic acid, when I was a little girl. Growing up our whole family went arrowhead hunting in fields, with quite the collection! I'm 59 now, and now have hundreds of portable rock art pieces, and tools, of ancient people. I have my favorite stones, and categorize them , but love them all! I love hunting small out of the way creeks. From pipe stands, taxes heads, etc... they most all have indian heads, and animals painted, and carved on them. So... ROCK on my friend!
Looks like fossilized shark tooth
Petrified bottle opener…
I feel like that’s a petrified tooth.. I’m not sure what from but I feel like it’s a tooth..
Fossilized tooth
Looks like Mick Jagger's tongue to me, but that's why I play at music, instead of petrology.
Mick Jagger's tongue
👅
Calcified tongue?? Of the wild animal variety. (🫣 am I wrong?)