I was going to geologist the same thing 😎⚒️

I think bonkers arrived a bit late but it definitely arrived.

Nice rocks too 😎⚒️

Mica. I wish there was an edit function.

Nice pegmatite. You'll find lovely feldspar at the triple chance mine site, once a major source for the ceramic industry. Also big sheets of mics used for toasters and valves and a great story connecting the beryl to NASA and the Apollo program.

Interesting. How do they compare with the much younger bitter springs micros?

Limestone. Looks like a mix of bivalves and gastropods but the small stuff might be fragments of other things. The shelly material is calcium carbonate, the go to material for most shelly things. If originally aragonite it is unstable over geo time and recrystallises to calcite in situ.

Your posts have been interesting and engaging. Some doors open as others close. You can and will find a way. 2025 was a crap year for me medically but I sincerely hope 2026 is better for all of us re the previous year's crap.

I try to give my students STEAM. STEM with arts... Many are shy to come out about their art but once they know they are in a safe environment the results are always impressive.

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Floatstone is no longer in use either. All classification schemes are just boxes to help understand the situation when reality is more often a continuum that is hard to describe.

Dunham does not use bafflestone anymore. This rock appears to have a lot of fines but also an in-situ branching coral, providing elements of a boundstone and a wackestone.

Definitely not a stromatoporoid.

Almost certainly syringapora. A branching coral found in palaeozoic rocks. Nice find in a till.

Right back at you with a happy 2026.
Coming to the end cycle 4 so a week without daily poison. Back at on the 31st...

Happy Xmas from SE Australia. Weird weather, cold and windy. Any colder and I'd light a fire. In a few days time it will be over 30!