Now i know you will get in a lot of trouble if you take them out of the woods. I had to pay a fairly large fine.
What woods? Why would you "Get in trouble" and with whom?
No offense, but if you would have done a google search with the terms "gold and diamonds in Indiana" ,like I had stated, you would have found the pdf on IUs own website titled gold and diamonds in Indiana. It was written by W.S. Blatchley.Where did you hear that geodes were brought here by the glaciers? Someone was pulling your leg pretty hard or trying to mislead you with incorrect information. Most of the rocks brought in by the glaciers are igneous in origin with some metamorphic. Very little of the sedimentary materials survive the very rough transport in the ice. A long time ago when the glaciers were still receding out of Indiana leaving their loads behind and I was at IU studying geology, I learned that geodes were likely formed in a calcareous ooze and formed as the likely result of a gas bubble caused by the decay of a piece of organic matter. The main material of a geode is chalcedony which is a cryptocrystalline form of quartz SiO2 (silica dioxide) quartz. There can be other minerals in geodes which would be determined by what happened to be moving through the ooze before it lithified and turned into what you find today. Most, if not all, of the geodes that you find in the Mitchell plain physiographic region of the state have weathered out of the less durable and less weather resistant carbonate lithologies that make up the bedrock of the area. In the days since I left the campus to search out my fortune, the geologists might have changed, modified or refined their opinions on the processes that form geodes, but I do not think that any of those would include being brought down from Canada.
Uhh, dont know the scientific name for indian beads, but the way i understand it is they are fossilized plant stems, the indians would bore the centers out to make necklaces ???? Ive always called them indian beads
Im game. Im sure Rellichound and other member would LOVE to come to your place. Find a Geode the size of a basket ball? IM THERE!
They are fossilized Crinoids. These plants were typically found in wet areas.