I have posted a pic and description of an odd phenomenon and I wonder if
anyone has suggestions as to how the described item was formed . . .
man-made, natural or cosmological? And no, this is NOT a hoax -- the
picture is real and the description is as accurate and honest as I can
make it. For a look at it, go to
www.h2omarkdesign.com/iron-stone.pdf
It may be nothing more than something dumped on the location by someone involved in iron or steel production, but it's more than a little strange. The fellow who found these things collected six or seven of them, but many times that were lying in situ, scattered (not piled), but reasonably close together within perhaps fifty square yards (five yards by ten perhaps, or longer but narrower?). The one pictured does NOT look like a casting, although the texture might be similar to a good quality casting. I had wondered whether they might perhaps have been billets used in a forging operation of some past day . . . except they were all different sizes. Doesn't seem AT ALL likely that such could have been projectiles like lava bombs which fell into a primal sea and cooled quickly, forming nicely smooth iron "drops" before they hit bottom -- but that's one idea, anyway. I'm trying to convince the owner to take it to a university geology deparment to have it sawed in half with their diamond saw. I'd like to see if there is any kind of internal structure, crystaline, layer or otherwise.
Anybody have a suggestion?
TIA
www.h2omarkdesign.com/iron-stone.pdf
It may be nothing more than something dumped on the location by someone involved in iron or steel production, but it's more than a little strange. The fellow who found these things collected six or seven of them, but many times that were lying in situ, scattered (not piled), but reasonably close together within perhaps fifty square yards (five yards by ten perhaps, or longer but narrower?). The one pictured does NOT look like a casting, although the texture might be similar to a good quality casting. I had wondered whether they might perhaps have been billets used in a forging operation of some past day . . . except they were all different sizes. Doesn't seem AT ALL likely that such could have been projectiles like lava bombs which fell into a primal sea and cooled quickly, forming nicely smooth iron "drops" before they hit bottom -- but that's one idea, anyway. I'm trying to convince the owner to take it to a university geology deparment to have it sawed in half with their diamond saw. I'd like to see if there is any kind of internal structure, crystaline, layer or otherwise.
Anybody have a suggestion?
TIA