[Homestead] New rock (for me) found

eureka at hctc.net 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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