Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Now that I've had a chance to look at the Ottawa, Ontario website (I
think you overloaded his server with your article!) and having been an
amateur paleontologist for around 30 years, I think he may well have a
point here in regards to some of these things being real fossils; I
thought it was very strange that most of the "Blueberries" seemed to be
approximately the same size, and his close-up of this one in particular:



Eh, approximately same size could be a factor of the geologic process.

For example the floating "stones" you can find in caves tend to average the
same size since the formation is of water with minerals hitting the surface
of a still body of water. The minerals continue to collect forming a flat
"platter" on the surface of the water until weight overcomes surface tension
and it sinks. Since the mineral mix is fairly constant, this happens when
they reach the same approximate size each time.

So, who knows.


Yes, it could be the end result of geology, and I have seen something
like these in regards to caves as you state; they are called "Cave
Pearls": http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/vir...ls/pearls.html
but cave pearls don't have stalks on them, and in both the earlier
picture of the one sticking out on the end of the eroded rock, and these
two: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/mar...pop2_p_037.jpg
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/mar...ross_m_034.jpg
Some seem to have a stalk-like structure on them.
They are odd, but not as odd as the other structure I linked to:
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/mar...tica_m_034.jpg
That is either a fossil, or a very convincing and coincidental
pseudofossil. About the only other things that would have that much
symmetry would be crystalline in nature, and the symmetry of it is all
wrong for a crystal (like stacked cups), it also appears to be forked at
the top, in much the way that coral or some plants branch out.

Pat