anybody know what this is?

[kloner]

we were at a national park called Trona Pinnacles this weekend and noticed this stuff all over the rocks..... anybody know what it's called?

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the signs around the place say half the periodic elements are found there... a lot of colors,,,,

 

[DucktileMedia]

Those are ancient hieroglyphs! Get out while you can! Dont film them. Bad luck.

 

[n1ente]

Seems traces of plants, I could think a fossil, or maybe a phase prior a definite and real fossil.

 

[kloner]

Crap Yuri, we brought em all home, I love lucy style.... got em all around the house, wonder what'll happen next......

N1, that's what i was thinking when i seen em all..... weird, it's like rock a bull dozer pushed into areas and it's all split apart with that stuff on em.

We didn't really bring any home.... my truck barely made it as is, we were 16,000 pounds with a f-150.... up the cajon pass...

 

[Mojave]

we were at a national park called Trona Pinnacles this weekend and noticed this stuff all over the rocks..... anybody know what it's called?

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the signs around the place say half the periodic elements are found there... a lot of colors,,,,

Take a look here: http://www.pavingexpert.com/stonpv01.htm scroll toward the bottom of the page, in the image above the stain is on sandstone. Most likely a 'trace stain' of metal oxides.

 

[kloner]

that is exactly it... same color and everything..... you seen that before?

 

[Mojave]

that is exactly it... same color and everything..... you seen that before?

I have seen it before while hiking around; although not at Trona. I have seen plant fossils as well - there is a similarity to fern leaf patterns. But fossils rarely look as striking as the patterns you found.

 

[kloner]

It had my attention all weekend,,,, piles of rocks sitting along a road, figured they weren't something nobody had noticed.... thanks for filling me in, the kids were stoked dad knew somebody that figured it out....

I thought it was fossil ferns

 

[bigloudvtwin]

It's lichen

 

[kloner]

to me that's the green fur that granitte rocks grown when it rains,,,,, dry it looks like sage green to black hard scalely stuff..... wet it grows

we have lichen all around my house,,,,