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Plowing up Rocks

Brian G. NY

Brian G. NY

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Harvey2's post reminded me of this "stone" I walked over for a couple of years in my driveway before I dug it up.
When I did dig it up, I was sure I had a meteorite.
Well, after doing a lot of research, I have been convinced I actually have a "meteorwrong".
Although it is very heavy for it's size and conducts electricity, it does not attract a magnet and tests negative for nickel.
It appears to be a "hematite concretion".
I have also found a couple of "projectile points'
(small spearheads)dating to about 3,500 years ago
which is unusual since I live up in the hills far away from any known native habitations. I assume they may have been lost while hunting.
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I use gravel from the Red River (borders Texas and Okla.) for driveways and such. It's amazing the things I find in the rocks. On slow days it makes for a day's entertainment.

I live on black clay and no rocks around to be seen. Yet every time you plow a field small rocks, similar to the ones in the river some 50 miles North show up.

Well they had to get here someway so I guess I have to assume it was glacier activity that put them here.

Mark
 
was pickin stones in the corner of a field and gave a small stone a kick with my boot to dig it out of the dirt. With no luck I had to get a shovel and dig it out. funny what you find some days on the farm. I call it my real heavy watermelon.
showed it to my wife and of course it had to go into the rock garden collection.
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In June of 1952, this 107 Kilogram meteorite was retrieved from a nearby farmer's field.

The picture shows that a lot of female help was used in getting it out.

I remember seeing the meteorite as a young fella back then.

Hope the picture loads.
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home with a small barn has a large bolder right in front of the door. hard to get around. he had a friend come in with a backhoe.they dug down 22 feet and still not been able to tip it or move it, i've been here for 39 years and its still here,guess he will wait for corusion towear it away. wally
 
Looks to me like the women were trying to bring the poor guy in the grave, back, after spending too much evening time laying under the stars with them, watching for metortites, if'in you know what I mean.
Loren, the Acg.
 
The glaciers from the last ice age stalled out at about the Missouri and Ohio Rivers. IT's more likely the river meandered into your area at some time in the past.
 
Hear you but I'm on a ridge besides being 50 miles from the river. About 5 miles N. of me is the crest of the ridge and the water (rain runoff and all) splits. South of that line it flows to the S. and N. of the line it flows N. and eventually into the Red River.

It's certainly not from below. I have been down 30' and nothing but gray shale.

Thanks,
Mark
 
Living less than 5 miles from the Wells Creek Meteorite impact crater, it is not unusual to find odd rocks. Also all kind of Indian artifacts as they also lived in the area.
 
Neighbor back east has a barn built on top of the ground. The 555B Ford backhoe couldn't dig through the shale, so the first addition he put on sits on to of the ground, too. The Last one has a little bit of footer, the 580SM was able to get through a little bit of it.
 
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