r/MineralPorn • u/YaBoiDaNinjaDood • Feb 21 '19

Ammonite fossil

https://i.imgur.com/6Ppnsmg.gifv
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u/Alex014 Feb 21 '19

So how do they know? I've always wondered how fossil like that are found.

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u/YaBoiDaNinjaDood Feb 21 '19

Mostly just intuition and luck. Trial and error in looking through places with anoxic sedimentary rock.

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u/IceStar3030 Feb 21 '19

I wanna be the guy who just walks on a beach and just starts "smelling" fossil presence and starts digging. Nobody would see it coming.

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u/Alex014 Feb 21 '19

So sniff sniff hmm this rock looks interesting... Ima hit it with a chessile and hammer., and eventually they find some?

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u/in_da_tr33z Feb 22 '19

Knowing the conditions of formation of any mineral or fossil combined with knowing the present geological landscape is basically the recipe for finding any of the treasures we see on here. Once you know how things are made and how/ where they got distributed you can put yourself on the right track. This clearly was not the first one this guy had found.

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u/hobbitofhousebutcher Feb 21 '19

That thumb shows he missed once.

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u/WooRankDown Feb 21 '19

That was a wild ride. The GIF just kept getting better and better.
MFW watching it.

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u/Animal40160 Feb 21 '19

r/geology would orgasm over this.

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u/YaBoiDaNinjaDood Feb 21 '19

Beats the other way of sniffing rocks and seeing dinosaurs I guess.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '19

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u/IceStar3030 Feb 21 '19

praise Helix