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[Peter Megaw]

A geologist friend from Mexico, Abelardo Mendevil sent me these pictures the other day of a house in Aguascalientes City, Mexico being completely covered with geodes. I passed it on as an e-mail and got numerous responses and requests to pass on the pictures/post of Facebook etc. This is fun, although the aesthetics may not be to everyones' taste.

Several folks have mentioned a similar house in Oklahoma studded with Baryte roses, and I think I remember seeing pictures of a house built of petrified wood logs in Arizona. Of course Philip Rashleigh's Carnish garden confection would qualify as well.

Would love to see pictures of the above...and other variations on the theme.

The geodes being used for this house come from a volcanic unit along the border of the states of Aguascalientes and Zacatecas. Most are the size of a grapefruit or a cantaloupe, but I have seen them as large as a Volkswagon Beetle...there's a biggie or two in the photos as well. More than one person has commented that this would be spectacular under a black light

[Maxilos]

That is indeed quite unusual!

Mark

[KDF-TX]

I have a few pictures of buildings, etc. made of salt and petrified wood at
https://www.texasrockhound.net/fieldtrips.html
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[J. A. Woolley]

Very cool, Peter. There is a small building built entirely from fossilized dinosaur bones in Medicine Bow, WY.

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11664
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I also recall a house near the School of Mines in Golden, CO whose foundation & lower walls were built at least partly with mineralogically interesting stones - massive copper minerals, sulfides, etc.

Cheers,
Jonathan