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Graham Catlow

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1320 on: August 22, 2010, 08:44:42 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on August 22, 2010, 08:35:16 PM
Dave : no coral

Graham : I have not Travertine ....but something what have to do with calcy ....

Well my next guess would be Aragonite, but I could have to go through several more with calcium carbonate as their main constituent before I get it right. That is if it is a mineral deposit.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1321 on: August 22, 2010, 09:01:11 PM »
Quote from: DaveM on August 22, 2010, 06:24:48 PM
How about rhizocretions - fossilised plant roots....... from a fossil soil.........

Or rhino excretions.....(Sorry, I'm no good at puzzles ???)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1322 on: August 22, 2010, 09:08:48 PM »
Well Lesley, you could be forgiven for thinking along these lines as I thought it might be fossilised dinosaur bones  ;D
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1323 on: August 22, 2010, 09:21:41 PM »
Rhino excretions makes you think of coprolite.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1324 on: August 22, 2010, 09:25:18 PM »
Quote from: Brian Ellis on August 22, 2010, 09:21:41 PM
Rhino excretions makes you think of coprolite.
I've been thinking that since the beginning, but didn't like to mention it....... :-[
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1325 on: August 22, 2010, 09:27:35 PM »
WE mention it all the time as David's great grandfather was a coprolite digger in Cambridgeshire - a lot better paid than farm labourers apparently.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1326 on: August 22, 2010, 09:50:39 PM »
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1327 on: August 22, 2010, 10:09:16 PM »
Thanks for that first one Maggi, I hadn't found that in my original search some years ago. :-*
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1328 on: August 22, 2010, 10:32:41 PM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on August 22, 2010, 09:01:11 PM
Quote from: DaveM on August 22, 2010, 06:24:48 PM
How about rhizocretions - fossilised plant roots....... from a fossil soil.........

Or rhino excretions.....(Sorry, I'm no good at puzzles ???)
Rhino excretions would be liquid and emanate from pores or the kidneys. Don't look like kidney stones to me?
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1329 on: August 22, 2010, 10:46:34 PM »
Sorry ...but it has nothing to do with any Dinosaurier .....

May be this puzzle is to difficould because we have here a very special ground ....

some of our german members should it know
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1330 on: August 23, 2010, 07:39:01 AM »
Quote from: Hans J on August 22, 2010, 05:32:58 PM
Hi all ,
Ranunculus : I dont understand you

But I did..... :'(     ;D ;D
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1331 on: August 23, 2010, 08:02:41 AM »
Quote from: Lvandelft on August 23, 2010, 07:39:01 AM
Quote from: Hans J on August 22, 2010, 05:32:58 PM
Hi all ,
Ranunculus : I dont understand you

But I did..... :'(     ;D ;D

That's amazing, Luit ... few people do!!!   ;D ::)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1332 on: August 23, 2010, 09:48:13 AM »
OK - here is the solution for my puzzle :

In my area we have a Loess ground :

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6ss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess

this pieces from my pic are called here : Loesskindl ( Loess child ) or Loessmännchen ( little mens from Loess ) - thats are konretions

Always when I dig in our garden I find this pieces ....so my idea was to make a puzzle  ;D

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1333 on: August 23, 2010, 10:37:00 AM »
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Always when I dig in our garden I find this pieces ....so my idea was to make a puzzle
 

Hans, it was a brilliant idea - I for one have learnt such a lot on the journey to try and solve your puzzle!  I'm sure someone would have got there in the end and I do remember learning about Loess in geography years ago. 

So this is why you grow such amazing plants in your garden  ;D
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« Reply #1334 on: August 23, 2010, 10:42:03 AM »
Another excellent puzzle, Hans, thank you. We're learning a lot here as well as having fun.... the best of all worlds!  8)
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