Saturday, January 26, 2013

quartz crinoids in rock

The quartz is somewhat transparent once wet.










Friday, January 25, 2013

horn coral fragment in pebble

There may be a center point towards the tip of the pebble.  You can see an indentation and then several concentric circles.




Thursday, January 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Bryozoan sandwich

Here's a pebble filled with several layers of bryozoan fans.  It's fractured apart like a Nutty Buddy bar.  You can make out the dotted edges of unexposed interior fans along the side of the pebble.







Tuesday, January 22, 2013