Can anyone identify this "rock"? It's black, very soft to the point of you being able to break it up with your hands and it can also be molded if you add water to it.
Can anyone identify this "rock"?
Can anyone identify this "rock"? It's black, very soft to the point of you being able to break it up with your hands and it can also be molded if you add water to it.
I unironically love these threads.
Assuming its some kinda basalt or something else close to it.
could be Whitby jet but it's rare to be that big of a sample, since the rock breaks so easily
Coal, probably.
Wtf is up with those fingernails?
>he survived
I don't think you guys realize how soft this is, it's as if it was made of mud, you could do pottery with it.
can I get an approximate location? are you near a volcano? looks like a beach, what ocean are you near?
Beach yes, northern Atlantic. No volcano.
what c**t?
>t. geologist
Continental Spain.
Might just be a chunk of clay?
It's a lump of water-packed black sand.
Brother... that's a log of shit. Whale shit to be exact.
What does it taste like? is it salty?
>Those digits
JFC we both know the only answer is Bitter almonds.
This shit is all over the beach yet I can't find anything on google nor anons seem to have any idea what it is.
I already told you what it is, you illiterate nig. It's reinforced, packed, waterlogged sand.
>But why do the little rocks stick together
magnets
No it's not. Unless you mean oil logged instead of water.
I guess this makes sense to post here. Oil is an ongoing organic process--happens near volcanos and shit.
Are you suggesting oil is a renewable resource?
It's more like a really dense slime mold but yes--the idea that we'll run out of oil is pretty silly but they can remove oil faster than the magic rock can make it. Not all oil comes in this form--the fracked oil is the leftovers from dead magic rock and some oil is algae sediment but the middle east stuff is all magic rock juice.
This isn't openly talked about but a few geologists will explain the process. The rocks are quasi-organic and under pressure (with the presence of extreme heat and the right "food") they excrete crude "oil."
I actually learned this from an organic chemist though.
Fascinating ideas, anywhere I can read more about it as a starting point?
Sedimentary rock and Oil Shale are what they discuss publicly. My geologist friend just told me about rocks that make oil but I don't remember much of what he said as it was a long time ago. The Organic chemist was the one that explained the process years later.
I have never found much on it through geology books and it's pretty specialized so not a lot of o-chem people deal with it.
I guess the organic chemistry approach would be to look at how hydrocarbon polymers are formed through organic processes.
Check out also the fischer-tropsch process, they think this is happening near black smokers to make methane
>fischer-tropsch
>Fe catalyst
Neat--thanks for this. Generally the public domain stuff is like 20% of the total picture. Energy cartels don't like to share.
Yw sweet cheeks
I find it interesting because theyve found methane in other planets so I wondered if it was abiogenic and found this process
I can almost guarantee you that any planet with tectonic activity very likely has naturally occurring hydrocarbon polymers.
Well a lot of hydrocarbons released from tectonic activity on earth are only releasing hydrocarbons because they are melting lithosphere with hydrocarbon sinks.. not generating hydrocarbons from tectonic processes. The exception seems to be in a black smoker environment
>the idea that we'll run out of oil is pretty silly
We are well into peak oil, Anon.
>Well in to peak oil
remember when "peak oil" was the favorite topic of 00s doomsday cultists? they even made video games about that shit
if it's magnetic then compacted magnetite sand
if not then maybe siltstone formed from eroded basalt sediment
basalmic vinegar
Tar balls
What kind of numpty thinks this is basalt. Fug
It's basalt sand you f**kn*gger
There could be deposits of black sand grains on a white sand beach after a storm, but they wouldn't occur in balls like this, and there's no reason why they would stick together when he pokes them and fall apart when he shakes them like quick clay. That doesn't make sense..
funknagger?
>self censoring
ngmi
That is definitely a whale turd.
Is it magnetic?
Is it Ambergris, the stuff whales cough up?
If it is, you better find a way to preserve it. They use it in high-end perfumes and colognes, and it's extremely valuable. Picrel is whale expensive whale puke.
It's a piece of weathered/unconsolidated shale likely weathered out of nearby cliffs
>shale
is there an easy way to tell between shale/siltstone/mudstone?
Siltstone is grittier than mudstone but they're very similar. Try chewing on it and see if it's creamy or gritty then you know. Shale is like a mudstone that breaks on planes. Also the deposit in OP's pics is not any of those and they're wrong
Coprolite
I think oil or ambergis, smell it. If it smells like tar then you know what it is. If it smells like amber then take that shit because it is worth a lot of money.
Shale.
Looks and sounds like coal breh