I’m sorry but can anyone tell me what these are

[Bagman]

I found a rock in my front yard an saw what looked like bones locked in them as a nurd at 75 it really caught my eye anyone out here know any thing about these please help. It’s the white items that I think are bones that are of interested to me

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

Damn, no idea but I'm following along. The nerd in me needs answers.

 

[smc]

@Gyrfalcon22 ?

 

[SilverFly]

Cool find Al. Sure looks like fossil bones but wish I knew more about the geology up your way. When we were on Marrowstone Island last week I was amazed at the variety of rocks on the beach.

 

[Scottybs]

Fossilized Atlantic Salmon...

 

[DimeBrite]

It looks like quartz mineral veining, not fossilized bone. The upper part of the rock has smaller white veins. I'm not an expert though.

 

[iveofione]

In the center photo it does look like inclusions rather than veining. Any idea what the matrix is? Can you tell if it is sedimentary or something else?. Looks cool though....

 

[Bagman]

Cool find Al. Sure looks like fossil bones but wish I knew more about the geology up your way. When we were on Marrowstone Island last week I was amazed at the variety of rocks on the beach.

Guy there‘s a lot of rocks in the area around my house that have been galled in and just placed around the yard. There’s is no way I can tell which once were put here by man or nature.

 

[Bagman]

In the center photo it does look like inclusions rather than veining. Any idea what the matrix is? Can you tell if it is sedimentary or something else?. Looks cool though....

It looks like sand stone to me

 

[Paul Voelker]

I'm kind of a rock hound myself and I've got lots of petrified wood, agates and others that I've collected and spread around my home. Just trying to confuse future archeologists when they dig up my place. There's a guy named Nick Zentner (Nick on the Rocks youtube) that is a geologist from CWU and he's a wealth of information. I'm sure you could send pics to him and he'd be able to help.

 

[Bagman]

As some of you know I’m new to the PNW, but I’m going to tell you what I’ve learned. The Puget Sound and the Hood Fjord were formed over 10,000 years and took 7 ice flows from up north and ran between the the Olympic Mts and the Cascade Mts down to about Sheldon. There’s no evidence that the ice flows ever topped the mts on either side. This may Explain why there are rocks laying around the woods next to me that really look out of place. Like this one. I’m going to try and get it out of the brush and check it a little closer.

 

[PhilR]

The Missoula floods were amazing too. Gouged up the landscape in eastern wa and deposited boulders from the Rockies 50 miles up the willamette valley.

 

[krusty]

Definitely fossilized Terry Dactyl.

 

[Tim Cottage]

Clearly fossilized Sasquatch tibia. Duh!

 

[kmudgn]

Twinkies from the future that were sent back

 

[Sturubu]

I'm with iveofione, looks like inclusions in something igneous. However, I crave dungeness and IPA after a closer look.

 

[iveofione]

Geologic and archaeological hoaxes over the years have lent a lot of interest to the scientific process. Some have been so wrong headed and bizarre that you wonder how anyone could subscribe to them yet some took on a life of their own. Some were well executed like the Piltdown Man. The Kensington Runestone is still debated 125 years later. The bottom line is that a number of things are susceptible to geologic interpretation and not all interpretations are agreed upon. A good controversy makes for interesting theater.

Anyone remember "The Search For Bridey Murphy"?

 

[Zak]

Did it look like this?

 

[Gyrfalcon22]

Great sleuthing above by all. Rocks, fossils and petrified wood are tricky but I like to stay with a cool idea until convinced otherwise. I have often overlooked things that, in the end, actually were a fossil or a native american tool because I did not think big enough !

Thanks for sharing

 

[Aufwuchs]

Hard to even tell the rock type from the photo but could be plagioclase crystal twins.