Posted 10 years ago
TinGin
(13 items)
Another item we found buried on our property It looks like a large animals foot and part of the leg. It's 16 1/2" long , 17" tall and 7" across the foot looking part. It's very heavy. How can you tell if you have a fossil or a rock that was just formed this way? Thanks for your time and input.
A fossil would have originally been a bone. So if it looks like a bone there is a decent chance it is a fossil.
Thanks, But I'm really not sure by looking at it. I would probably need to try and break off a piece somewhere. It's just so solid and heavy. It just seems to be an odd shape for a rock but you never know with mother nature.
Rocks moved by glaciers and huge flooding can over time have the most wonderful smoothness and shapes formed. I would be just happy with an interesting rock. No need for it to become famous or a prehistoric animal.
In a final moraine, rocks would have been smoothed by the process of movement. Ok so the glacier melts and the melt water pushsthe rocks, earth and what have you down to a final resting place known has a final moraine or morane.
Such tremendous forces cause rocks to be shaped.
Do a google search for Bonymaen, Swansea Wales UK and you will see a standing stone.