Don't get caught up in the web rock!
As you may have noticed from previous posts, we get quite a few strange if not downright ugly rocks in our store. But even the ugly rocks have a story that can be interesting. We have a whole shelf section dedicated to "weird rocks"
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There is an assortment of speliothems, desert columns, Bone agates, and water rocks.
Today I want to focus on web rock.
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It's primary characteristic is the webbing that is found throughout the matrix.
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Theory has it that during their formative years they were in in a wet environment. Cracks between the rock formation allow for slime to create curtains between the rocks. As the slime curtains remained, dust and minerals collected on them.
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Eventually, those curtains dried and hardened thus creating the unique formations. as natural events occurred, or people found them, the rocks were separated, thus exposing the webbing an now are interesting display specimens,
A dry pic
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Once again, even ugly rocks can be fascinating.
These are beautiful!
This rock is purely fascinating and anything but ugly :P
It looks fragile. Does the interior break easily? I hate when a specimen at home starts creating debris and dust XD
The webbing itself is somewhat fragile. It should not be handled frequently. We've had webrock in our store often and I don't recall seeing residual dust left behind when we sold them. Thank you for comment and up vote.
Keep on writing and stay curious!
Thats some good use of pegboard, and lovely specimens.
How wonderful! I've never seen anything like it before. Weird is always fascinating :D