tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post5084925259984454027..comments2024-03-29T05:02:01.215+05:30Comments on Amusing Planet: Petoskey Stones of MichiganKaushik Patowaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15000427721236718033noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-21862241771397884282018-07-12T02:00:52.075+05:302018-07-12T02:00:52.075+05:30The image of the stones with the smaller eyes are ...The image of the stones with the smaller eyes are actually Charlevoix stones, which was a different and more recent species of coral than the one that gave us the Petoskey stone.Tres Brookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14990839153193668233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-91098794029406823832016-10-25T01:59:42.266+05:302016-10-25T01:59:42.266+05:30Great story Framer. My son and I have found Petosk...Great story Framer. My son and I have found Petoskey stones far inland in southern Michigan. They are awesome. in fact, we just got back from Petoskey MI. 10/20-23/16 where we found over 150 nice stones from the beach, and inland along the Bear River... which drains into Little Traverse Bay. Needless to say, no matter where we go in Michigan... if we find a rock pile we look for Petoskey stones. Blessings!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-56698494009497117452016-10-14T07:43:58.899+05:302016-10-14T07:43:58.899+05:30The really remarkable thing about Petoskey stones ...The really remarkable thing about Petoskey stones is that I had never heard of them before I found 4 of them lying on the eastern shore of Carlyle Lake, in Southern Illinois some years ago! I owned a small farm in the area and was a short walk from the shore which had no pubic access on most of the shoreline. I took the dog down to play in the water one morning and I saw an odd patterned rock lying in the shallow water. I picked it up and examined it and decided to keep it for a conversation piece. When I got home and pulled the then dried rock from my pocket, it looked like just another plain rock. I did a search on the internet for "honeycomb patterned rock" and one of the hits was a link to an explanation of the Petoskey stone. <br /><br />I just figured that someone had dropped it in the sand accidentally while walking on the beach until some weeks later I found another stone of the same internal construction! In all, I found 4 of these rocks in the following year or so and there may have been many more that I hadn't yet come upon.<br /><br />The mystery of how they got from the Upper MI area all the way down to Southern IL was solved when I spoke to a friend of mine who taught geology at the nearby community college. He told me that when the glaciers pushed South many thousands of years ago, they had stopped their Southern movement and began receding back North again right about where we lived in So. IL. As they melted, they left deposits of rocks and debris that was pushed ahead of the glacier mass, called "tailings", and he surmised that the stones that I found on the shore of Carlyle Lake just off the North edge of my farm must have been pushed all the way from Northern MI down to So IL and the natural erosion of the lake had worn the clay and sand from their resting place and brought them to the surface for me to find!<br /><br />It sure makes for an interesting story on a cold winter's night! I feel so lucky to have stumbled onto such treasures so far from their original home. They now have a place amongst the other fossils, pottery shards, arrowheads, and spear points that I have found in the general area. <br /><br />The old adage is, "You can't see the forest for the trees" and my adaptation of that saying is, "You CAN see the arrowheads if you look down once in awhile". The view is great but one misses the beauty that is right in front of them if they don't look down occasionally.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17703684391334231620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-43996613742493472652014-09-11T13:07:51.661+05:302014-09-11T13:07:51.661+05:30It's not about "stories"...it's ...It's not about "stories"...it's about facts! It's really frightening to think that this guy was a high school science teacher!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8890523669575867377.post-50218395509203227502014-09-09T20:10:16.303+05:302014-09-09T20:10:16.303+05:30When I was a kid vacationing in Michigan a local -...When I was a kid vacationing in Michigan a local - a high school science teacher - convinced us that these stones were made of dinosaur poop. I like the original story better!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com