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Mr

by MATTEO
(Colorado Springs co)

I don't know anything really about it other than it looks a whole lot different than any"Rock" I've ever seen

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Sep 08, 2019
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by: Douglas

This looks like a concretion. Concretions are the rock equivalent of a snowball. A pebble, fossil, or ? picks up minerals, sand and whatever is around. The other stuff gets glued on by minerals like calcite and over time it grows like a snowball!

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