r/Rocks • u/Darnok26 • Oct 04 '24

Help Me ID Bought in Korea. Man said desert stone. Can anyone identify?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

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u/The4434258thApple Oct 04 '24

Sure this isn't chocolate? I wanna taste-test.

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u/GoblinBugGirl Oct 04 '24

LICK IT!

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u/The4434258thApple Oct 04 '24

... well now I don't wanna... what did you do to it

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u/GoblinBugGirl Oct 04 '24

I licked it, too… This Goblin also thought it was chocolate.

1

u/thezenfisherman Oct 05 '24

That is what he said...

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u/Skaro731 Oct 04 '24

No, it's a Boeing bomb. You can probably find the nuts on it if you look hard enough.

1

u/diacrum Oct 04 '24

As Joe Dirt would say, “That’s a big pile of poopy!”

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u/Bohappa Oct 04 '24

That or Sleestak hide.

47

u/PositionBeneficial12 Oct 04 '24

Looks like a piece of the Castle GreySkull He-Man toy I had as a kid

14

u/Alexius6th Oct 04 '24

I had to check in here to see if OP was messing with everyone or not because I, too, thought this was a big hunk of plastic.

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u/Darnok26 Oct 04 '24

It's very smooth like plastic. Great feel to it. But it's like over 5kg/11lbs and almost put me in trouble with my luggage limit.

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u/openyoureyes89 Oct 04 '24

"It's just you and me, meteor."

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u/cack_yo_ween Oct 07 '24

"See the peanut"

7

u/Professional_Shop851 Oct 04 '24

I don’t know why, but I want to eat it a chunk of it.

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u/giggitygiggity2 Oct 04 '24

Kinda looks like a bunch of tootsie rolls smashed together.

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis Oct 04 '24

Shmootsie Roll! BIACHES

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis Oct 04 '24

Chocolate made in the cast of an alligator ummmmm Fat kid Happiness!

6

u/ONENODEWONDER Oct 04 '24

This reminds me of Joe Dirts’ “Boeing bomb”😁

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u/TheMightyUnderdog Oct 04 '24

It’s a space peanut!

2

u/Tmorgan-OWL Oct 04 '24

Cool! Is it heavy? Mind saying what it cost?

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u/Darnok26 Oct 04 '24

Pretty heavy. My guess is 5kg/11lbs. $180 aud is what I paid for it.

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u/GoblinBugGirl Oct 04 '24

Ah! $5 USD. $50 CAD. Got it. 😂

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u/Why_isnt_it_perfect Oct 05 '24

180 aud = roughly 123 usd

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u/GoblinBugGirl Oct 05 '24

It was a play on how awful the AUD is. CAD isn’t much better.

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u/RevRaven Oct 04 '24

That is stunning

1

u/steaksrhigh Oct 04 '24

very cool!

1

u/willybobo1 Oct 04 '24

That's so cool looking. Just curious, how much did you pay for that? It's definitely really cool looking and I totally understand why you bought it. I'm sure it looks awesome in your home and makes a great conversation piece. Thanks for sharing this.

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u/Darnok26 Oct 04 '24

I paid $180 aud for it. Was looking for a carved stone, preferably a dragon which other stores had a few of, but this just made me think of petrified dragon skin and I had to have it.

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u/trying_my_best- Oct 04 '24

180 oh sweetheart you got scammed a bit. I agree with another commenter this looks like mudstone which is extremely common. You got a big old piece of clay. It is beautiful though!

1

u/rockstuffs Oct 04 '24

Oh wow! Haven't seen anything like it! Was it mud?!

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u/redman2271_at_yahoo Oct 04 '24

That's beautiful.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

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u/esseneserene Oct 05 '24

not a meteor bruv. what would rocks be doing floating around above is in fairytale fuckwit nasshole vacuuous nightmare space?!

lola

1

u/My-Own-Comment Oct 04 '24

Looks like harden clay damped again with moisture.

1

u/Why_isnt_it_perfect Oct 05 '24

Looks like a petrified avocado 🥑

1

u/TheMule90 Oct 05 '24

Mmmm Milka!

1

u/esseneserene Oct 05 '24

yeah it looks fake tbh

1

u/esseneserene Oct 05 '24

if it is real, it's the coolest rock I've ever seen. I have a raptor or like size/species carnivore that actually existed outside if imagination's skull that has mostly become quartzite, but with part of the spine and ear/nose and a bit of its jaw still being soft porous bone, and empty spaces where the teeth used to be. weighs about 7 pounds and is the size of ... hmm. like a size 9 or 10 shoe, men's.

this thing if real is more interesting than that. I hope it isn't fake m8, God bless

1

u/BlockPutrid2173 Oct 05 '24

Almost looks like the base to an anine figure

1

u/orangesequins Oct 05 '24

That is an excellent rock!!

1

u/Rando9523 Oct 05 '24

It’s a giant turd

1

u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

Petrified log?

1

u/CrazyLeader302 Oct 05 '24

Looks like what would happen if a bog dried up

1

u/red1hoot Oct 05 '24

Thought it was chocolate. More like dessert stone

1

u/mgroeb2 Oct 06 '24

Can you submerge it in water and determine the displacement? Might be helpful to see if it’s actually rock.

1

u/Darnok26 Oct 06 '24

1320ml or 44.6oz

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u/mgroeb2 Oct 06 '24

Thank you! Do you have a way of weighing it as well??

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u/Darnok26 Oct 07 '24

3.2kg or 7lbs

1

u/mgroeb2 Oct 07 '24

Could be a kind of birnessite that has been heavily polished. Density is a little lower than typical birnessite, but it’s as good a guess I got.

1

u/dr_neks Oct 07 '24

Dookie rock.

1

u/Defiant-Pin-6771 Oct 07 '24

That looks eerily similar to dried paint. Sometimes if left to drip, it will congeal and then wrinkle as it dries. Might explain the little holes in as well, air bubbles escaping as it is drying.

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u/rroute01 Oct 07 '24

Looks like plastic to me

1

u/polymath83 Oct 08 '24

What do the ends look like?

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u/Darnok26 Oct 08 '24

11th and 12th images are top and bottom respectively. https://imgur.com/a/IUIAguX

1

u/ExhaustedTechDad Oct 08 '24

chatgpt says "botryoidal chalcedony"

1

u/icelessTrash Oct 08 '24

Some sort of concretion? They are found in deserts too but not all are so lumpy, the metoeric ones have all.sorts of crazy shapes:

https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/concretions/

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u/MoreInfo18 Oct 08 '24

I think that this was originally formed on a seashore, with the smoothing caused by wave action on a crytptocrystalline (almost sugary texture as seen from the chipped surface) quartz rock. I think the round holes and tunnel like spot, and the 4 or 5 areas with pairs of similar holes close together (like nostrils) may have been made by invertebrates at some point in time - some invertebrates can drill into rocks)..

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u/mrnobody2876 Oct 08 '24

Part of the dinosaur skin infused with a rock

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u/angerwithwings Oct 08 '24

I’m still thinking petrified wood.

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u/throwaway2901750 Oct 09 '24

Take it to your local college/university and ask them for help identifying it.

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u/Dramatic-Whole6839 Oct 09 '24

It looks like a polished piece of burnt wood but it's like shit brown color -.-

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u/Caroba7 Oct 10 '24

I don't know if this has been suggested before, and I've been following other posts, but comments were locked. It gives me vibes of fossilized burnt wood that has been smoothen over time by fine sand. Like petrified charcoal and the petrified forest . I'm no rock expert, but it seems possible.

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u/Immediate_Candle_865 Oct 11 '24

Did you get an answer to this ? I’m wondering if it’s a fossilised termite mound, that’s been polished.

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u/Darnok26 Oct 11 '24

Not yet. Messaged a bunch of people but only ever got one reply. They referred me to someone who works at a museum and they should get in touch with me but who knows when.

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u/polymath83 Nov 02 '24

The small holes like like veins, nerves, capillaries...I think you have a fossil.

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u/sockscollector Oct 04 '24

Don't get it wet

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u/Piperbabybowman Oct 04 '24

😆 unless you want a cute Gizmo

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u/elguereaux Oct 04 '24

Mmmmmmmm….dessertttttt stonnnnnne…..

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u/flaffleboo Oct 04 '24

That’s chocolate

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u/Efficient-Section874 Oct 04 '24

Meteorite you're My only friend...