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u/Not_So_Rare_Earths Primordial 6d ago
It's not impossible -- Uranium as a chemical element is, broadly speaking, quite common in the crust. I think Ohio would be an unusual place to find anything visible (except maybe a weird glacial erratic from Ontario?), but we'd have to see what's tickling your detector.
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u/Peeps1444 6d ago
From what I did read up I thought it could possibly be shale. But it just seemed to sedimentary for that. The rock is definitely darker and more of a dark clay color. It would give credence to radon including that I didn’t get a good spectrograph? Really I just need to go back. The problem is that it’s very much frowned upon to go off trail and it’s up a steep hill that would make me very visible on a very busy trail. But to me it’s just interesting because the uptick is detectable from a good distance away for it to be a small source.
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u/The_Silent_Tortoise 6d ago
But... Shale is a sedimentary rock. That said, sandstone is a major sources of thorium and uranium. This looks like classic sandstone-shale-sandstone stratification.
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u/Peeps1444 5d ago
lol sorry I’m typing and working. It looked similar to shale but in my head it wasn’t a classical example of shale. Then again I don’t have much training in the rocks area. I’d be interested in exploring the Ontario erratic idea some more tho.
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u/weirdmeister Czech Uraninite Czampion 6d ago
maybe..i can only see a counter..but i rly asking myself is it nessessary to misshandle those devices like that 🤔