Sharp Geologic Insights visits or reaches out to countless stone yards, quarries, and stone distributors searching for just the right stone, rock or boulder for each project. Along the way, we run into sad neglected rocks looking for a new home. They are shut up in cold warehouses or left in open lots with no one to admire them or listen to the stories they weave of days gone by. Of floods, or volcanos, of erosion or deposition, of the quiet passing of millennia or thunderous tectonic events. Here are few of our favorite rocks, click on the images to enlarge, then hover over image to read that rocks search for new home that will love it and call it beautiful. Won’t you help us find a way for these wayward stones to find a way into your college, so they can share their stories with your students?
Texas Shell – I work well either indoors or outdoors. I really tell a great story so put me where students want to learn about my history. I have tons of stories to share.
Calypso Coral Boulder – I am strictly an outdoor kind of rock. In my past, I was a real build up, some folks even called me reef. Just set me out in the sun please, I feel energized by the Sun’s rays.
Weather or not – Some people say I have spent too much time outdoors and I am too craggy and weathered. I say they don’t appreciated how life’s outdoor experiences weather to the surface lessons for anyone to learn from.
Calypso Coral Brick – I love my cousin the boulder, but I am strictly an indoor rock. My dream role is to hang out on a wall with other sedimentary rocks. Each of our stories being a chapter in a book. Combined they create a book of great discovery.
Ship rock – I guess they call me ship because of my shape. Hey, no shipshape jokes please. I love the outdoors, but I am tired of being underwater. Rain is good, but let me be in the sun with people. I love people.
Tool Marky Mark – In the early 90’s I formed a rock band you may have heard of, Tool Marky Mark and the rocky Bunch. My early life was a series of one drag after another, but people seem really interested in those drag stories. Go figure.
Hard Rocker – I like my rock hard and loud. Hard rock music can be so tectonic, it really melts my soul. If you feel the same way, let’s get together and jam.
Azul Bahia – I am totally into blue. Favorite color – blue, Favorite music – Blues, Favorite clothes – blue jeans, Favorite cartoon – Blue’s Clues. I am definitely an indoor rock, if you want a blue focal point for your entry, I’m your slab.
MC Channel Time – I love kittens and puppies, but I really dig channels. I am not sure why, they just seem to erode down into me till they are a part of me. If you like channels too, we should in IRL and stream where this goes.
F. Lime Fitzstone – Most people know me from the book I wrote “The Great Gastropody.” But, I also penned “Tales of the Carboniferous Age” and “This side of Bivalve”. If you bring me home to your college maybe we could collaborated o a few new stories.
Dino Track 1 – Sharp Geologic Insights tracked me down. Who else do you know that can find your department a Dino Track? I so desperately want to go to college, schools were quite limited in my day.
Dino Track 2 – If you thin finding on Dino track is hard, try finding two that are available for your school or department. Together we are a real Dino Daze.
Meta – I can’t talk right now I am just under so much pressure. Call Bill, he will get you and I connected.
Blue Bahia – So you want a signature slab for the department entry and Azul Bahia is just not blue enough for you. Well here I am, BLUE BAHIA!!!
More than just another sandstone – You better not just walk by and say just another sandstone. Zoom in and check me out. Can you say DEFORMATION! Put me in our rock garden and watch the students come up with explanations for me. Some will be brilliant, some will be hilarious.
Ripple Ripple everywhere and not a drop to drink – I have no water today, but in my past, water and I were great friends. What can I say, we hung out and I would just go with the flow. If you pay close attention you can learn about the flow.
Why are you not calling Bill yet? – You know you want this slab as the signature piece for your department. Pick up the phone and call. If you think this is a series of meteor impacts or sauropod tracks don’t call.
Conglomerate Beauty – You will fall in love with this conglomerate as either part of a Geology Wall or as a stand alone signature piece. Simply stunning.
Elavalis Presley – I am a huge Elvis fan. My favorite songs: Lava me tender, Hunka hunka burning lava, Almost in lava, and Blue Hawaii. Yes I had a troubled past, I was a molten magmatic youth, but I vented my explosive nature and now I have an extrusive personality.
They call me Mr. Volcano – It is the looks not my history. But I am another beautiful options for a signature slab at the entry to your department. One of Bill’s personal favorites.
Ignacious O’Sidian – Some people refer to me as natural glass. That is wrong. I am glass. The stuff people make should be called unnatural glass. A poor imitation of me. I can have a sharp wit, but when hit too hared I fracture in a conchoidal fashion. So be gentle. Looking for a new forever home.
Sensitive Conglomerate – I may look like concrete, but I am a conglomerate. Please don’t call me concrete it hurts my feelings. Looking for a new job in the geosciences. I am the rock you have been looking to hire. I work for just pebbles.