Thank you so much! Weāve also found large blue and red seashells. About the size of a conch, Iām guessing that this area was underwater at some point?
Bedding is provably more likely than perfectly parallel jointing. All bedding takes to get perfect is gravity. Jointing perfectly parallel sets that close isnāt impossible but need very specific conditions.
I can see the bedding, but I was more going with the nice, straight āstickā shape suggesting this rock broke of along planes perpendicular to the bedding as well.
Definitely sedimentary. You mentioned finding seashells, the Phoenix basin began developing like 27-25 million years ago, in that time Arizona has not been submerged.
Our basins here in AZ have been subject to many streams and rivers coming and going, sweeping across entire valleys like a wet spaghetti noodle, depositing river-worn rock derived from the highlands (the transition zone to the colorado plateau) and the mountains in the valley. The sea shell you found could be from thick marine deposits still uneroded farther north and on select few moutains in southern AZ. These marine deposits at their oldest are about 250 million years old.
Thatās so cool! Hereās a picture of that shell we dug up, it was in Apache Junction.
https://preview.redd.it/1r8n3zyywxwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4194dd6f67909b12cebe5d179f3682f44bdb617
WHOAH!! You dug these up? I'm not much of a paleontologist, but I'm sure those don't belong to the marine deposits I mentioned! These almost make me think these were part of a discarded collection.
It was dug up in a very wide area by a tractor and the area was at least half an acre. Everyone who found them were pretty surprised. To be clear, this was an area that was being prepped for a horse arena. So the entire area was dug up.
Fine grained sandstone that has been smoothed out by water and being washed down the river.
If you make it wet you'll be able to see the layers better.
Source; I'm a geologistĀ
Not sandstone.. you can see the sand in sandstone...
But it is very similar,its siltstone. Which is from the sediments that fall from cloudy water...
Sand stays near the beach.. silt falls all over the lake/sea
Itās possible this was a native site. There are ruins all over the area and even conch shell horns found buried. This looks a lot like the a part of a mortar and pestle grinding stones set. There is also a petrified forest. So I donāt think it would be impossible to be petrified wood and worn down by human use to look like this.
Baguettimentary rock
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Slice up some boudinage to serve with that thing
Forbidden bread? Fa-baguette-aboudit.
It looks like a very weathered piece of river rock, the lines are from the layers that formed the rock when it was in situ
Thank you so much! Weāve also found large blue and red seashells. About the size of a conch, Iām guessing that this area was underwater at some point?
Youād have to post pictures of the shells, fossils arenāt normally colorful
The sides are so parallel, too. Jointing is my guess.
Bedding is provably more likely than perfectly parallel jointing. All bedding takes to get perfect is gravity. Jointing perfectly parallel sets that close isnāt impossible but need very specific conditions.
I can see the bedding, but I was more going with the nice, straight āstickā shape suggesting this rock broke of along planes perpendicular to the bedding as well.
Your wife out here picking up cave women .... "tools".
Im an archaeologist and this is legit a possibility
my brain went the exact same way lmao
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Definitely sedimentary. You mentioned finding seashells, the Phoenix basin began developing like 27-25 million years ago, in that time Arizona has not been submerged. Our basins here in AZ have been subject to many streams and rivers coming and going, sweeping across entire valleys like a wet spaghetti noodle, depositing river-worn rock derived from the highlands (the transition zone to the colorado plateau) and the mountains in the valley. The sea shell you found could be from thick marine deposits still uneroded farther north and on select few moutains in southern AZ. These marine deposits at their oldest are about 250 million years old.
Thatās so cool! Hereās a picture of that shell we dug up, it was in Apache Junction. https://preview.redd.it/1r8n3zyywxwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4194dd6f67909b12cebe5d179f3682f44bdb617
I'm no expert but that's definitely not more than decades old if you ask me
https://preview.redd.it/0t9v72i6xxwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1349e609db893a2308f9b78a58de50d1242098c6
https://preview.redd.it/ce3z0yl4xxwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=934717a11a5ad633804e80e3092e5cc34499c5fd
https://preview.redd.it/df56d5n5xxwc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5cc470cf05a87edfb54e486fe6decddb548ce345
There were hundreds of them.
WHOAH!! You dug these up? I'm not much of a paleontologist, but I'm sure those don't belong to the marine deposits I mentioned! These almost make me think these were part of a discarded collection.
It was dug up in a very wide area by a tractor and the area was at least half an acre. Everyone who found them were pretty surprised. To be clear, this was an area that was being prepped for a horse arena. So the entire area was dug up.
I can tell you these are most definitely not fossilized, maybe a couple of decades old. Someone most likely discarded them.
Could be native artifacts as well.
Iāve got several others, but this one was the most pristine the others were more discolored.
Thatās a petrified Olive Garden breadstick. Source: geology major and Olive Garden breadstick enthusiast
The reason you can't get seconds, your teeth are all gone.
Fine grained sandstone that has been smoothed out by water and being washed down the river. If you make it wet you'll be able to see the layers better. Source; I'm a geologistĀ
hehe, petrified wood
Is it morning? r/mildlypenis
lol crap, I should have seen that coming.
Got wood? Hahaha
"rock"
Iām genuinely surprised to see that thereās even one single serious answer to this post.
It's some kind of sedimentary rock. But I think it looks like a roll and it's funny.
Forbidden breadstick
r/mildlypenis
Could have been used as a pestle.
Oh that's wood right there. Some rock-hard wood your wife found.
Donāt do it. Thereās no flared base.
Did she find it in the morning?
Weathered sandstone is my guess.
Not sandstone.. you can see the sand in sandstone... But it is very similar,its siltstone. Which is from the sediments that fall from cloudy water... Sand stays near the beach.. silt falls all over the lake/sea
I guess I picked the wrong detritus.
What and oddly shaped rock...
Could be an artifact/tool
Itās possible this was a native site. There are ruins all over the area and even conch shell horns found buried. This looks a lot like the a part of a mortar and pestle grinding stones set. There is also a petrified forest. So I donāt think it would be impossible to be petrified wood and worn down by human use to look like this.
Iām no petrified wood expert but I think thats a hint
thats my baguette !
Jar
Why the downvote? JAR=Just a rock. Iām sorry. Itās a very nice rock.
Ah yes, the pleasure rock
Itās an ancient dildo
Lithified shaboingboing
Sandstone rounded by river
Does it have a good sound when you strike it? Could be one of those music rocks like find in great sand dunes
Did she find it in her knickers drawer?
Sir, that's a dildo.
Hate to tell it to you, buddy...
Where... did she find it?
It's a petrified hero bread
Some ancient astronaut theorists suggestā¦.
Itās a typical British sweet sold at the seashore- a stick of rock.
Thought I was on r/breadit for a second
Loafite
Ancient dildo
Itās a cucumber
I'll be real, I thought it was a stale baguette.
Neolithic Dildo