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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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