Rocks from beach catch fire in woman's pocket

Spontaneous calcite combustion?

San Onofre State Beach.
It came from right next door.

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Hey ! nice find !

About those taps, were they, quick short ones, that started slowly and gradualy went faster and faster, almost reaching a continous tone ?

Talk about a hot pocket....lol

This is very strange.

On a side note, I was outside a few minutes ago
and in the distance, heard Taps being played.
I've lived here a long time and never heard that before.
No military bases close except for a NRB about 10 miles
away.


Rocks from beach catch fire in woman's pocket
range county news, eileen frere

Eileen Frere

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (KABC) -- A woman literally burned a hole in her pocket from rocks collected on a family beach trip to San Clemente. In an Eyewitness News exclusive, authorities say the woman suffered serious burns.

The rocks contain various colors - some green, some orange. There were seven of them altogether, collected by a San Clemente family during a fun morning at Upper Trestles on San Onofre State Beach last Saturday.

Maybe we have to look at this situation in a different light.
Maybe this MILF was SOOO HOT that the rocks in her shorts started on fire after she was laready self combusting.

IVE SEEN THIS BEFORE ..

wait gonna search..

omg people, you all are soo paranoid :D I growd up in a city right next to a beach and we have alot of this rocks (idk the english name of them) [link to www.google.com]

Thoes ones and some of them starts burning when they are in warm place.it have happened many times so its not a big deal.

That may be the case, though a Google search doesn't support it....Do you have any kind of supporting evidence, or in lieu of that, folklore?
Though a Google search doesn't support it

for sheer 2012 weirdness

It was explaining (debunking) one case of spontanious human combustion

stop talking to yourself

Seriously ,about those taps, were they, quick short ones, that started slowly and gradualy went faster and faster, almost reaching a continous tone ?

Cause I had a event (taping event) once when I was out camping in BC, in Osoyoos, by the border.

It happen early in the morning at around 500, and was like a low F. very deep penetrating sound, seemed to be coming from under, it was felt by everybody, even if they were sleeping, it woke everyone in my group, the sound went across my meat to bounce back out on my bones, it felt like!

yes a funeral march being played has so fucking much to do with rocks catching on fire.can you shilljobs say anything at all without twisting it all to hell?

Um wrong... That first poster was not me.

Good attempt though. You get 1 out of 10 for trying.

Last Edited by ~Iammoi~ on 05/17/2012 05:10 AM

Good data here:

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Phosphorus?

Phosphorus and X will start a fire?

"Juan Fernandez, reporting for CBS2 and KCAL9, said the children picked up the colorful rocks — one was speckled green, another orange and black.

A HazMat crew picked up high levels of acid in the home and until the test results come in, the family is not allowed back home.

Fernandez talked to investigators who said, while the rocks might look normal, it is likely they were coated with white phosphorous, a highly-flammable material that forms naturally. Officials said a small spark or friction (like walking with them in a pocket) could cause the rocks to combust and burn like a road flare."

[link to losangeles.cbslocal.com]

Willie-Pete will EAT YOU UP...

Not unless they were actual fuel pellets and it doesn't sound like they were.

This is one Pacific beach anomaly I'm going to have to chalk up as NOT Fukushima. I vote meteor.

Whatever it is, it is very interesting and a phenomena I personally have never heard of before.

maybe full of magnesium or sumut and the rubbing set them off , ... wierd case for sure ..

Phosphorite Rocks

They are in fact quite common and found on the ocean floor.

[link to i125.photobucket.com]

The rocks must have generated a spark which set her pants on fire, the rocks didn't "burn".

Can't really remember precisely but in one of the latest episodes of "Ancient Aliens", von Daeniken talked about plants the extracted liquid of which was capable of "liquifying" (maybe he intended heating) the stones/rocks for a short time so as to allow the people to shape them before they returned to their solid state again.

depends what the fabric was...
rocks bashing together can easily create sparks.

That's what I call karma. She took the rocks from the kids who were playing with them. How rude! Because rocks are obviously a bad toy to play with. They are free gifts from nature..and instead of paying 9.99$ for some random toy they started to play with plain ole rocks. Mother got pissy took them away and they set fire to her. :P

She had the rocks from the temple of doom.

Rubie mine in Spruce Pine?

arrrrrrrrRRRRRRR brimstone!

"Unnamed volcanic rocks (andesite, dacite, rhyolite and basalt) of San Clemente Island"

[link to geopubs.wr.usgs.gov]

Hawkins, J.W., and Divis, A.F., 1975, Petrology and geochemistry of mid–Miocene
volcanism on San Clemente and Santa Catalina Islands and adjacent areas of the
southern California borderland: Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs, v. 7, no. 3, p. 323–324.

Merifeld, P.M., Lamar, D.L., and Stout, M.L., 1971, Geology of central San Clemente
Island, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 82, no. 7, p.
1989–1994.

Vedder, J.G., and Moore, E.J., 1976, Paleoenvironmental implications of fossiliferous
Miocene and Pliocene strata on San Clemente Island, California, in Howell, D.G.,
ed., Aspects of the geologic history of the California continental borderland:
Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Miscellaneous
Publication 24, p. 107–135.



"(andesite, dacite, rhyolite and basalt) of San Clemente Island"

Andesite: igneous rock, can have a greenish tint.

[link to www.google.com]

Andesite (pronounced /ˈændəsaɪt/) is an extrusive igneous, volcanic rock, of intermediate composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture. In a general sense, it is the intermediate type between basalt and dacite. The mineral assemblage is typically dominated by plagioclase plus pyroxene and/or hornblende. Magnetite, zircon, apatite, ilmenite, biotite, and garnet are common accessory minerals. Alkali feldspar may be present in minor amounts. The quartz-feldspar abundances in andesite and other volcanic rocks are illustrated in QAPF diagrams. Relative alkali and silica contents are illustrated in TAS diagrams.



Dacite: igneous rock, usually grayish tint, flint-like, volcanic glass-like.

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Dacite consists mostly of plagioclase feldspar with biotite, hornblende, and pyroxene (augite and/or enstatite). It has quartz as rounded, corroded phenocrysts, or as an element of the ground-mass.

The plagioclase ranges from oligoclase to andesine and labradorite. Sanidine occurs, although in small proportions, in some dacites, and when abundant gives rise to rocks that form transitions to the rhyolites.

The groundmass of these rocks is composed of plagioclase and quartz.





Rhyolite: Igneous rock; greenish with orange flakes...

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Here's a rhyolite polished gemstone that looks EXACTLY like the culprit identified: [link to crystal-cure.com]

Another rhyolite polished gemstone: [link to 2.bp.blogspot.com]

The chemical composition of rhyolite is very like that of granite. This equivalence implies that at least some and probably most granites are of magmatic origin. The phenocrysts of rhyolite may include quartz, alkali feldspar, oligoclase feldspar, biotite, amphibole, or pyroxene. If an alkali pyroxene or alkali amphibole is the principal dark mineral, oligoclase will be rare or absent, and the feldspar phenocrysts will consist largely or entirely of alkali feldspar; rocks of this sort are called pantellerite. If both oligoclase and alkali feldspar are prominent among the phenocrysts, the dominant dark silicate will be biotite, and neither amphibole nor pyroxene, if present, will be of an alkaline variety; such lavas are the quartz porphyries or “true” rhyolites of most classifications.





Baaalt: igneous rock; greyish-greenish.

[link to www.google.com]

Normal alkali basalt contains olivine and, commonly, a diopsidic or titaniferous augite. Alkali basalts predominate among the lavas of the ocean basins and are common among the mafic lavas of the forelands and backlands of the mountain belts. In the Brito-Icelandic province the Paleogene and Neogene lava flows of the Inner Hebrides, Antrim, and the Faroe Islands include great successions of both tholeiitic and alkali basalts.




Can rhyolite catch on fire? No, not really.

"Fire Mountain rhyolite" - [link to www.ebay.com]

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No, not really...



Andesite and Dacite = coal and flint?

Andesite most commonly denotes fine-grained, usually porphyritic rocks; in composition these correspond roughly to the intrusive igneous rock diorite and consist essentially of andesine (a plagioclase feldspar) and one or more ferromagnesian minerals, such as pyroxene or biotite. Smaller amounts of sanidine, a potassium-rich feldspar, may be present. The larger crystals of feldspar and ferromagnesian minerals are often visible to the naked eye; they lie in a finer groundmass, usually crystalline, but sometimes glassy.

There are three subdivisions of this rock family: the quartz-bearing andesites, or dacites, sometimes considered to be a separate family; the hornblende- and biotite-andesites; and the pyroxene-andesites. The dacites contain primary quartz, which may appear in small blebs or crystals or only as minute interstitial grains in the groundmass. The hornblende- and biotite-andesites are comparatively rich in feldspar and are usually pale pink, yellow, or gray. Pyroxene-andesites are the commonest type of andesite and occur in amounts comparable to basalt. They are darker, denser, more basic rocks.



Perhaps sanidine?

sanidine, alkali feldspar mineral, a high-temperature form of potassium
aluminosilicate (KAlSi3O8) that sometimes occurs in surface rocks. Sanidine forms colourless or white, glassy, transparent crystals in acidic volcanic rocks.

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Potassium aluminosilicate?
Olivine?
Kalsilite?
Leucite?

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Kalsilite (KAlSiO4) was used as a heterogeneous catalyst for transesterification of soybean oil with methanol to biodiesel. Kalsilite showed relatively low catalytic activity for transesterification reaction. The catalytic activity of this catalyst was significantly enhanced by introducing a small amount of lithium nitrate by the impregnation method. A biodiesel yield of 100% and a kinematic viscosity of 3.84cSt were achieved at a mild temperature of only 120°C over this lithium modified kalsilite catalyst (2.3wt.% Li).

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A kalsilite bearing rock in the pocket (heat) of a woman who is manic depressive and taking lithium bicarbonate may become a catalyst that will convert soybean oil (suntan lotion?) into methanol - explosive gas?

My Theory:

The woman is bipolar manic depressive; she's taking lithium. She had suntan lotion on that had soybean based oils in it. She put a piece of kalsilite in her pocket. This warmed up the mineral. The combination of kalisite, some heat, the suntan lotion, and walking catalyzed the suntan lotion oil into methane... and the quartzy/dacite rocks sparked...

BOOM -- the methane is ignited...

FIRE!!!!

QED.

Disprove this theory, please.

This is a bright one.

Good thing she didn't have any Oranges, there could have been a nuclear explosion!


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