Fossil Soup, Honeycomb, Horn Coral, Flowerbed

 

So, I was doing what I seem be 

be able to do so well, sitting on my

rear looking at rocks.

I need HELP!!

Actually, I had been getting

some together for my oldest brother

Ray so since I am heading that way

on Sat. I wanted to check things.

I love rocks like this.

They are called 

Fossil Soup.

That is a rock that contains

more than, usually several

different types of fossils.

Same as below.

This piece I found months and months

ago, I love this piece.

It is a honeycomb coral. 

In a lot of coral you will see

crystals. This one

has shinney crystals in it.

You know I have been doing the 

ROCK

thing for over a yr now when

I had a load of dirt dumped

in the yard and realized it was full

of fossils. 

I have been finding things but 

the internet couldn't always answer

the question as to what it was.

FB pages could not answer it either.

But yesterday it hit me like  

a piano falling on my head.

Most of the things I was finding

in my yard, I have realized at 

bits, pieces, smashed, broken or

full horn coral.

When I would find on in tack I 

knew what it was, internet

told me that, it was the smashed,

broken pieces that threw me off.

Let me show you...

Not anything like what the rose

of a Rugosa coral, aka horn because of

years of being in the water.

My dirt came from the Duck River 

waterbed so they have been in the water

for millions of yrs. First the warm sea

that covered TN, and ending in the 

Duck River.

Not any are alike. Some of these

I am holding have a horn base, like

a cornucopia, some has had that 

part broken off. Some fossilized in 

sandstone or mudstone, some in 

chert or coral and some even in 

volcanic ash.

If they are covered in coral they

become bumpy on top. Some are smushed

in so that the rose like pattern can't

be seen, and a lot of them I find

them cut in half long ways. 

But finally, all these different yet

close patterns and stones make 

sense to me.

Hence, I hold fossilized horn coral from

millions of yrs ago in my hand. 

I asked what all these pics have

in common on a FB page and 

someone said, "they are Cretaceous..     

So, to be sure I knew the 

exact meaning I looked it up.

The Cretaceous (IPA: /krɪˈteɪʃəs/ krih-TAY-shəss)^[2] 

is the geological period that lasted from about 

143.1 to 66 Ma (million years ago). It is the third 

and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as 

the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is 

the ninth and longest geological period of the 

entire Phanerozoic. The name is derived from 

the Latin creta, 'chalk', which is abundant in 

deposits from the latter half of the period. It

 is usually abbreviated K, for its 

German translation Kreide.
    

If this is correct and they are

from that period, 

they are OLDER

then ME!

I have to wonder, I always

question stuff, how it is possible to 

be locating things like this, so long

after the fact?

Anyway, the garden needs 

a make over but this is the 

one I made on the fly to 

stick stuff I was given and 

was not ready for. But, it has filled

out and will cont to fill out each 

yr. Although, I also threw seeds in 

there....wonder what will pop up.

Not anywhere near the neat

cool flowerbeds in the past but I am

still working around the issues to the yard

and trying to find what will work.

Still battling a sloping, although not a 

 big slop, yard and trying to get 

grass to grow. Where there is no

grass, my dirt keeps going back

to the trees ...AGAIN. 
But, if I can locate of railroad ties

I think I might be able

to fix some of the issue.

Who knows, I feel like

it is a never-ending battle.

Weekend is over, hoping 

you had a great one.

Mine was really nice.

Details tomorrow.

Pam