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radiowizard
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A Whatsit

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I found this a few weeks ago on my property up by Baldwin, MI. Looks a little too symmetrical to be formed by nature. 2" long, 1" high, and about 3/4" thick. Kind of grayish brown with a few pinkish spots. Maybe nothing of import for all I know.
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I assume that it is a stone. If there are no similar stones anywhere in the vicinity, it could be a dinosaur gastrolith or gizzard stone.
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It was found in stones that were put down for drainage of the rain gutter on our vacation place. I've found nothing else like it. A few Petoskey stones, but nothing else comes close to this thing. I don't know any geologists, but there might be one at Hope College in Holland, MI. Not sure if they teach it there. There are a few other colleges/universities that may help.
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Are you sure it’s not river rock? I’ve seen river gravel and river rocks in so many different shapes and colors I couldn’t begin to count them all. Regardless what the basic shape was, water, and tumbling in a river, will round off the corners and edges.

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Could easy be. The surface is not smooth. Just curious if it was kind of small tool head. Matters not. Keeping it with my unpolished Petoskey stones.
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