[meteorite-list] Mysterious stone eggs...

From: edward moore <edward_f_moore_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:27:26 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <883830.60384.qm_at_web34812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Coast To Coast with Art Bell etc had a recent article about them also. Link is listed below
  http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2007/04/18.html
   
  and same ones referred to in a link in post from Paul
   
  Ed

kevin decker <innocentwolf15 at hotmail.com> wrote:
        Paul,Thank you for clearing that up!,I've never heard of Cannonball concretions.I've lots to learn about these kinds of things..Best regards..Kevin.



  
    
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From: Paul <bristolia at yahoo.com>
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] Mysterious stone eggs...
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:09:44 -0700 (PDT)
>kevin decker asked if the "Mysterious stone eggs..." from Hunan
>Province..China. were "Something like The Eggs from the Osceola
>Impact Crater?"
>
>No. They are meter-scale, cannonball concretions. Cannonball
>concretions, composed of carbonate-cemented sediments, of their
>size have been found in a number of places, including:
>
>1. Rock City, Kansas
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_City%2C_Kansas
>
>2. Along the along the Cannonball River within Morton and
>Sioux Counties, North Dakota
>
>http://nd.water.usgs.gov/lewisandclark/points/concretions.html
>http://nd.water.usgs.gov/lewisandclark/photos2.html
>http://meteorites.wustl.edu/id/cannonball.htm
>
>3. In the Frontier Formation in northeast Utah and central
>Wyoming.
>
>http://jsedres.sepmonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/73/3/462
>http://www.wvup.edu/ecrisp/crisphomepage.htm
>
>4. Along the shores of Hokianga Harbour of Hokianga, North
>Island, New Zealand
>
>http://www.hokiangatourism.org.nz/activities/koutuboulders.htm
>
>5. near Mecevici, Ozimici, and Zavidovici in Bosnia-Herzegovina
>
>and 6. near Moeraki, South Island, New Zealand
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moeraki_Boulders
>http://jsedres.sepmonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/3/398
>http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/M/MoerakiBoulders/MoerakiBoulders/en
>
>Some papers, which describe, illustrate, and discuss the origin
>of cannonball concretions, which are similar in size to the
>Chinese "mysterious stone eggs" are:
>
>Abdel-Wahab, A., and E. F. McBride, 2001, Origin of giant
>calcite-cemented concretions, Temple Member, Qasr El Sagha
>Formation (Eocene), Faiyum depression, Egypt. Journal
>Sedimentary Research. vol. 71, pp. 70-81.
>
>Boles, J. R., C. A. Landis, and P. Dale, 1985, The Moeraki
>Boulders; anatomy of some septarian concretions. Journal of
>Sedimentary Petrology. vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 398-406.
>
>Forsyth, P. J., and G. Coates, 1992, The Moeraki boulders.
>Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences. Information Series
>no. 1, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
>
>McBride, E. F., and K. L. Milliken, 2006, Giant calcite-cemented
>concretions, Dakota Formation, central Kansas, USA. Sedimentology.
>vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 1161?1179.
>
>McBride, E. F., M. D. Picard, and K. L. Milliken, 2003, Calcite-
>Cemented Concretions in Cretaceous Sandstone, Wyoming and Utah,
>U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research. vol. 73, no. 3,
>pp. 462-483.
>
>Thyne, G. D., and J. R. Boles, 1989, Isotopic evidence for
>origin of the Moeraki septarian concretions, New Zealand:
>Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 272-279.
>
>The original article which discusses the "Mysterious stone
>eggs" is:
>
>Mysterious Huge Stone Eggs Discovered in Hunan Province, Epoch
>Times Staff, April 17, 2007.
>
>It can be found at:
>
>http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-4-17/54224.html
>
>The article stated in part:
>
> "Upon photo analysis geologists believe that the
> stone eggs are rare, large concretions of the
> carbonate rock. They were formed, starting from a
> tiny nucleus in the center, snowballing slowly in
> the oscillating sea water."
>
>In this sentence, the reporter has very likely either mistranslated
>what the geologists told him or her or is indulging in some poetic
>license in writing his his story. No geologist, whom I know, would
>argue that these concretions formed like snowballs. Instead, these
>concretions, like many other cannonball concretions, started growing
>within sediment underlying the bottom of a sea or ocean only after
>it had accumulated. In the pictures accompanying the articles,
>the original layering of the strata, in which the concretion grew,
>can be seen as concentric rings around one of these concretions.
>
>The original Chinese article is at
>
>http://epochtimes.com/gb/7/4/1/n1665041.htm
>
>Looking at the lowermost figure in the Chinese article, I have to
>wonder, being unable to read Chinese, if the author of the Chinese
>article is confusing them with the man made stone balls in Costa
>Rica. (A translation of this article would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Paul H.
>
>
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