Identity HelpGreen spiderweb jasper? and......
Curious about the specific names for each jasper. I think the green one is green spiderweb jasper??? It weighs about 90 pounds plus. Found in the ocean on the big sur coastline.
The other brownish one weighs in around 55 pounds also found on central coast and mountains. Could have come out of bluffs or washed up?
The green one was wedged in a foot of water. Both Jasper's have very different techtures. The green one is very smooth like ice while the brown one is more grainy. Green one seems much stronger. Jasper?
The small one with water tunnels is ? I found it in sand in an old ancient seabed. 12-15 million years old. I have a few sanddollRs as well. But this stone was uncovered by a rain storm.
Not sure if the stone inside it is part of it or it is two stones wedged together. I haven't tried removing it. It has a glitter to it.
The orange one is orange coral but I'm a bit skeptical of it being dyed. not sure. More curious about the others for now.
Thanks all.
Mike
I don't see any jasper there. The big one on the left looks like some sort of metamorphosed breccia or sheared breccia. The large on the right a fractured volcanic rock with alteration ( bleaching) along the fractures. Impossible to say for sure without some thin sections. The small one maybe a vuggy limestone with a pebble wedged in one of the vugs. Could also be some sort of volcanic rock? Test it with acid to see if it is limestone.
Thank you Reiner, I'm learning something new everyday. I had no idea about the green one. But the the brownish one with the rings I thought was some sort of jasper. I attached one more close up in the sun and added another stone I found. I'm afraid to ask what the other stone is. ........jasper?
ThanksNow that is see a better picture I am more inclined to call it a gneiss, however with the rock out of context it is difficult to say. It is like taking a sentence out of a book and then trying to figure out what the book is about. The second looks to me like a piece of microcline feldspar and quartz probably from a granitic pegmatite. I agree with Reiner on both. 
I would agree with a gneiss and something from a pegmatite. Also, the green rock looks like something with either serpentine in it, or it has been serpentinised. That wouldn't be shocking considering the relative proximity to the Franciscan Complex. Thin sections would go a long way to positively identifying all of these.... 
I concur with the gneiss and pegmatite. The green rock could also be coloured by chloritic alteration but there is definite hydrothermal bleaching along the fractures 
I'll go against the mob and call the pink/orange/gray one (img_4967) a brecciated jasper. Very common along the California coast and in the coastal ranges whereas pegmatitic rock isn't. A few indentations and blocky edges do hint at feldspar but for the most part it's irregularly broken fragments as in a typical breccia. For something to be a breccia it must exhibit angular fragments. Admittedly this may have at one time been breccia but it has now been deformed and altered. Taking another long look at that photo (img_4967) I could go either way. It is only one photo and a tumbled (transported) stone obscuring the mineral relationships. It could also be argued to be vein material too.
