Geology Discoveries

[Airic]

After working with my BH on numerous projects around the property I have found you really can learn a lot about the Geology of your land and mine is very diverse. I've dug up stumps and doing other tasks that amaze me with the different types of earth I dig into. This weekend I've been working on my driveway turnaround and gutter drains I'm routing to our small pond/spring for an irrigation project. Upon digging my trench I have run into pure sand, not sand/dirt or pit run but, pure sand like what you would find on a beach. On the attached photo, I but the top soil crust on the right and the sand on the left. I top soil crust was approx. 12" thick. I'm segregating the sand pile for another project but, I'm just amazed that I would have this. My wife said she always wanted to live on a beach. Little did she know she already does, just a really old one. How many others have found interesting finds like this?

I'm still looking for dinosaur bones

 

[Airic]

Sorry, Picture didn't attach.

 

[czechsonofagun]

I found things like old chain in the pasture and more than one phone cable. We are near former military base and I think they had some private lines here. Miss utility knows nothing about it.

 

[laurencen]

we are building a house, when digging the basement at 3 foot hit gravel, pulled enough out to surface the road, when digging the septic tank we hot clean fine sand at 5 feet and still there at 12 feet, tried to trench thro it but just caves in, dug our several hundred yards for a beach my son wants on the pond, we dut over 16 feet for the pond and it was mostly clay, its 400 feet from the house

 

[Airic]

That is exactly the conditions I have. Our pond is only about 200 ft from the house. Our pond is a real thick slimy blue clay with the exception of where the spring surfaces which is all pit run. I assume that all of the sand I've found is part of the source of the spring. Our spring runs all year and at about 200-250 GPH.

 

[LBrown59]

After working with my BH on numerous projects around the property I have found you really can learn a lot about the Geology of your land and mine is very diverse. I've dug up stumps and doing other tasks that amaze me with the different types of earth I dig into. This weekend I've been working on my driveway turnaround and gutter drains I'm routing to our small pond/spring for an irrigation project. Upon digging my trench I have run into pure sand, not sand/dirt or pit run but, pure sand like what you would find on a beach. On the attached photo, I but the top soil crust on the right and the sand on the left. I top soil crust was approx. 12" thick. I'm segreg
ating the sand pile for another project but, I'm just amazed that I would have this. My wife said she always wanted to live on a beach. Little did she know she already does, just a really old one. How many others have found interesting finds like this?
I'm still looking for dinosaur bones

The oddest thing i ever encountered when digging is when I dug the ditches for gas water and sewer on the spot my home sets on several years after i had the entire 2.33 acres reshaped by regrading.
Got down about 2 feet digging the water sewer and gas line ditchs and it started smelling like a hog pen and you would have swore you were actualy shoveling out a real hog pen.
Boy did it stink.
Never did determine why the soil stunk like that.
This would have been 12 to fifteen feet below
where the surface of the the property was before I had it all graded off.

 

[bones1]

Old septic maybe?. I had to dig through an old septic field for my garage, about 4 feet down it really smelled.

 

[LBrown59]

Old septic maybe?. I had to dig through an old septic field for my garage, about 4 feet down it really smelled.

Nope this was on undeveloped land that had never been disturbed from time begining untill i did the grading and ditching in 1971.

 

[LarryD]

I live on top of a gravel pit. This island was pushed up when the galciers came down the sound during the last ice age (this past spring?). Anyway, when I fenced my pastures, I would auger a post hole until I was sure it wasn't moving anymore then used a breaker bar to bust up the bottom of the hole (pull out a large rock) and auger some more. In one area, I set the auger down and spun it up. As soon as I dropped the 3 pth the bit disappeared, I couldn't move fast enough. It was pure sugar sand, nothing else. That only lasted for 3 holes maybe then it was to auger, breaker bar, auger, breaker bar...

 

[wedge40]

After working with my BH on numerous projects around the property I have found you really can learn a lot about the Geology of your land and mine is very diverse. I've dug up stumps and doing other tasks that amaze me with the different types of earth I dig into. This weekend I've been working on my driveway turnaround and gutter drains I'm routing to our small pond/spring for an irrigation project. Upon digging my trench I have run into pure sand, not sand/dirt or pit run but, pure sand like what you would find on a beach. On the attached photo, I but the top soil crust on the right and the sand on the left. I top soil crust was approx. 12" thick. I'm segregating the sand pile for another project but, I'm just amazed that I would have this. My wife said she always wanted to live on a beach. Little did she know she already does, just a really old one. How many others have found interesting finds like this?

I'm still looking for dinosaur bones

Where in Indiana. All I have found on my property is that nasty sticky clay. I cant figure out how anything grows in the stuff. Growing up in Michigan I was use to nice black loam, which was easy to work and dig in.

I guess I'll have to look for my sand pile.

Wedge