White stones with red spots

[jan24]

Can anyone tell me what the stones are that have what looks like splattered paint on them found around the far West End area? Someone said blood stones but I can't find any information on them other than the green stones with red spots.

[LLAP]

I noticed quite a few of them at the Westender last week and was wondering the same thing.

[Captain Oil]

Do they look like this ? ? ?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_(mineral)

[jan24]

No, that is what I saw when I tried to do research. They are white coralish with maroon spots.

[jan24]

This is the stone.

[Rum-polephoreskin]

Hard to say with out touching it.
I'd guss the white part is limestone (common on the west end - I think the cliffs are all limestone).
The red stuff: best guess coral.

On the black stone the red looks like some kind of lichen-not anything mineral.

[Kritter]

From the picture, it appears to be fossilized reef rock (which is mostly coral skeleton mixed with a cementing type of calcareous algae - the major component of limsestone) - the red flecks appear to be remnants of coralline algae that typically encrusts the rock.

[Rum-polephoreskin]

jan24 love your avatar pic

[jan24]

Thanks, taken last year from the cliffs.