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[scottobear]

This is "coprolite": fossil feces, dinosaur dung, petrified poop... rocks tens of millions of years old...the fossilized leavings of dinosaurs and other extinct animals. Like all petrified fossils, coprolite is made of different materials, depending on what the medium of petrification was. On the left, the agate-like material has been sliced and polished from a larger chunk. On the right, a small pyramid of spheres is made of Alabama marcasite. They are enlarged about twice life size.



Counter to what some folks might say, you can polish a turd. :)

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[billijean.livejournal.com]

Hehe... When I went to the University of Toronto, I took a couple of geology classes. One of my assignments was to draw (form a sample) fossilized shark shit. It seemed very bizaare...

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

that is wacky!

[filthymonkey.livejournal.com]

Nice Christine reference!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Yup, She likes fossils! :)

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[filthymonkey.livejournal.com]

Two birds with one stone... she likes fossils and in the movie based on the Stephen King book, the elderly, cigar smoking garage owner states "Ya can't polish a toid!"

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hey, right you are! Spot on! :) (I was wondering why you underlined it.)

[dorkgirl.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Somehow the coprolites we were given to analyze in my geology classes weren't quite so, uhm...photogenic!

Mystery solved

[inquisitor.livejournal.com]

Does the act of polishing prove once and for all that sh!+ and shinola are the same thing? No wonder all those people got so confused!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

nope... shinola could be used to shine s#!+, though. :)