[Homestead] New rock (for me) found
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eureka at hctc.net
Sun Nov 11 20:09:49 EST 2007
Gene,
Could it be volcanic tufa?
--Sage
Way Out in Texas
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 08:51:21 -0600
Gene GeRue <genegerue at ruralize.com> wrote:
> Digging out the hillside for the metal barn has provided
>insight into
> what lies beneath the surface here in south-central
>Missouri, about
> fifteen miles north of the Missouri-Arkansas border.
>
> Yesterday I found a chunk of rock that the backhoe had
>broken off a
> larger rock. Very lightweight, highly porous, orangish
>in color. I
> brought it to the house and hosed it somewhat clean. It
>took me some
> time before I realized that I was almost certainly
>looking at coral.
> Yet more proof that this uplift was at one time beneath
>a great
> inland sea.
>
> Now looking for photos on the Web, to more closely
>identify what it is.
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