Re: Fossilised Cannonballs? - all.jpg (0/1)

From: Carsten Troelsgaard (carsten.troelsgaard_at_mail.dk)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:23:53 +0100

"Richard Hayes" <richard@adeptdotco.za> skrev i en meddelelse
news:421796fd.1634340@news.adept.co.za...
> Hi,
>
> In a recent trip through the eastern Free State, Republic of South
> Africa, on the Lesotho border near a town called Smithfield, I came
> across the objects (for want of a better word) in the attached
> picture.
>
> The specimens you see in the pictures were just the easiest to
> photograph and were by no means the only specimens.
>
> Stupidly I did not use a ruler or some other object for size
> comparison. You can however see my hand in one of those pictures and,
> for scale, my hands are about 4 inches (100 mm) across the knuckles.
> All the balls were more or less of the same size.
>
> The rock looked like sandstone but then I am a complete novice at
> identifying rocks so you can take that identifcation with as many
> grains of salt as you please.
>
> What are they? Can anyone throw some light on the subject?
>
> Thanx in advance.
>
> Richard A Hayes

This link could be associated to your observation

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mom/spheres.html

Carsten

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