Aquarium Rock Hunt

[BioHazard]

Today was a nice day, and I promised to grab some nice large river rocks for a friend, so I went out rock gathering today. Luckily, I know a great place to pick up a variety of river rocks. I figured I could get a whole bunch of extra rocks, and just bring them to MsJinkzd's party. My buddy can cherry pick, and the rest can be used in other peoples hardscapes!
So, after playing packmule for a day (Note: Rocks are heavy), here is my haul. I gave them a quick hosedown to clean off the dirt and see what they look like wet. I also separated them by type.

All the rocks.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130648.jpg


Smooth gray rocks.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130649.jpg
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130651.jpg

Smooth red rocks.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130653.jpg


Layered rounded gray rock.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130654.jpg


Light colored striated rocks
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130658.jpg


Dark indented rocks
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130659.jpg


Oddballs
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130661.jpg


Big smooth pink rocks

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130663.jpg


Smoothed layered slate
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130664.jpg


Fossiliferous flat rocks
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130666.jpg

The fossils in the last two rocks are nothing exciting, just crinoid columnals and brachiopods. Probably Devonian age.

You can see the crinoid columnals here.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130668.jpg

This is what a crinoid looked like....
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/Crinoidea/crinoidreal.jpg
And here are the brachiopods.
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u300/Graphicentropy/P1130669.jpg

And here are some examples of brachiopods. They were similar to today's bivalves, but had some morphological differences.

http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecalvin/image/cpc7521.gif

[SharkaThon]

I wish they had rocks like that around here! Great pictures and rocks!

[Death Pony]

These would look great in a river/stream tank.

[CatsMeowww]

That smooth slate is really cool!

[mightymax860]

I just went to rhode island and collected some to.but those look great

[irishspy]

Nice specimens. I'm envious; the only rocks I can get out of the LA river are asphalt or concrete. :wall:

[Rbishop]

Great finds!

[fish-n-chips]

nice rocks, those will look great in someones tank.:thm:

[mellowvision]

really sweet selection. It's hard to find large, irregular, but round stones. especially with fossil imprints!

[halfmoonplakat]

really awesome rocks

[Michwol42795]

niceeee rocks!

[ayra321]

very nice rocks, wish i had rocks like that here!

[jpappy789]

Very cool finds!

[Vicious_Fish]

You have a very lovely pet rock collection.

[Inka4040]

Awesome!!! Those look really great :)

[cam191919]

the dark indented ones kinda look like my favorite rock

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