More cut agates

For a while I had wanted to get more rocks cut and finally got around to it again.

It is always fun to guess which rocks will turn out beautiful on the inside. This time I was not disappointed.
The biggest rock on the left is 6 1/2 inches.

I have noticed something similar in most of the rocks I have cut. See the circle designs on the surface? Very often rocks that have that on the outside are beautiful on the inside. This is one clue that a rock might be banded or another color. I have a few that are pink inside that have the circles on the outside.

Pine ridge rock

Petrified Mud

As far as I can tell, this piece of dried mud is petrified. It does not change when sitting in water and sounds like a regular rock when banging it against another.

(This is actually not a Belize rock, so maybe it should not be on this blog, but I would like to include it anyway. It was found, if I remember correctly, in the US in one of the national parks.)

More identical unexplained rocks

 I showed you the one on the right before, wondering how is was formed. Well, I still wonder. Maybe even more so, as
I found a similar one.

 the one on the left has very similar marks, only finer.

 I see that I have a few followers by now. (thank you guys!) Is there anyone out there that knows more about these rocks than I do? I hope one day someone will venture forth and tell me what they think, or know!

Pine ridge rock

Grey (granite?) rocks with white quartz veins

 I have a fascination for these grey rocks with white lines. There's always another unique one to be found.

Whoopie pie, anyone?

Pine Ridge rock.

brother rocks

Sometimes we find a unique rock, as the case was with the following rock, found by my son who only picks up rocks of great value to me!

It is clearly a layered rock of some sort. It has a flat surface.

 Then recently I found its brother...