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Still Life with Hats . . .

AbbaDatDeHat

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Rock ID can be difficult from 1000 miles. Could be quartzite, could be feldspar from an intrusive dyke, could be something else. For sure, it wears that beautiful hat better than I ever could.
Greetings Rockwater et al:
Agree completely. Could also have been mined from who knows where and brought in. Not being insitu all bets are off. Need to find an outcrop then hit it with a hammer etc. Quartzite sounds like nothing else i’ve ever hit. Think Big John Henry Steel Driving Man driving a steel stake. And of course i could be FOS. We are talking Tenn. right?
Be well. Bowen
 
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that “sugarey” texture
It definitely has a lot of Silica sand in it. The color is what I would call a dusty rose. Bowen, I'm in MO. This is a mineral rich area & one of the theories is that the minerals were pushed here by the glaciers. This is about as far south as they got before receding back north. Don't know if there is any truth to that or not.
Could be quartzite, could be feldspar from an intrusive dyke, could be something else.
Thanks for your input RW. The last big boulder of it I saw was a couple of summers ago. A contractor was clearing trees from power lines along the right of way to the old road near the plantation where these rocks seem to surface. They had cleared back about 15-20 ft from the road. I happened to drive by & saw a big boulder of it sticking up out of the ground. A couple of days later I went back with my rock hammer & shovel but it was gone. Someone had beat me to it!

The hat is my Ritch Rand Natural beaver Tom Mix built on a 4x6.
 
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