Timeline for Found in a river in north Georgia USA. What type of rock is this?
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| Jul 29, 2018 at 15:32 | answer | added | ab2 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 29, 2018 at 5:14 | history | edited | Charlie Brumbaugh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2018 at 2:38 | history | edited | Ron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2018 at 8:36 | comment | added | llama | put it back when youre done | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 20:42 | comment | added | ab2 | The link given by @Jan Doggen should be a template for "what is this rock questions". On this Q, the first thing should be the scratch test. | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 9:00 | comment | added | user15958 | This may help adding more info | |
| Jul 24, 2018 at 0:51 | history | edited | Ron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2018 at 16:04 | comment | added | ab2 | It should be easy to distinguish between calcite and quartz. Calcite is 3 on the Mohs scale. Quartz is 7. A kitchen knife will scratch calcite but not quartz. | |
| Jul 23, 2018 at 15:31 | comment | added | Aravona | Could you take a picture with a flash on too? Possibly if not calcite as @ab2 stated, maybe quartz? It is very well weathered. | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 12:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackOutdoors/status/1021014833502785543 | ||
| Jul 22, 2018 at 2:56 | comment | added | ab2 | Semi-informed guesstimate: the white part looks like calcite, which is usually not as pretty as the photos in the link. | |
| Jul 22, 2018 at 1:45 | comment | added | ShemSeger | Can you identify the minerals? Could be anything from cave coral to a fossil of some sort. what's the hardness of the white stuff? Does it scratch metal? | |
| Jul 21, 2018 at 22:49 | history | edited | Charlie Brumbaugh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2018 at 22:05 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 21, 2018 at 22:00 | history | asked | Ron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |