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Coprolite or what?

by Robert
(Edmonton, AB, CANADA)

Coprolite or gill or what?

Coprolite or gill or what?

Found in a bunch of road crush out front of my house in Alberta.
Looks like a coprolite but the folds look to0 regular and look like gills.

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Impactite
by: Anonymous

Impactite also deformed stone from meteorite Explosion.

Impactite
by: Anonymous

Looks very much like an impactite or stone which deformed from a meteorite Explosion.

Unknown
by: Douglas

Robert,

I don't know what this is. Your area is covered with rocks from the Upper Cretaceous Period but other that that I can't give you much information. Sorry.

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