Mainly because:
1) I’ve seen such minerals in metamorphic shales
2) They don’t have any particular orientation. To have such an high concentration of fossils of one kind, a process such as selective transport of water (based on the weight of these “clasts”) is often invoqued, as for bone beds. BUT, oil shales forms under really calm waters, below wave action, because you would have had an oygenated ocean/basin floor otherwise, which is in contradiction with the fact they are source rocks

I’m sure it’s not pyrite. I would agree with some posters on andalousite/staurotide. However, these minerals are formed from pellitic sediments (so concordant with a shale origin, with high alumina content) BUT under moderately high to high degrees of metamorphism, and at this degree, the rock should bear a nice schistosity :p

A super high resolution of some of these would be helpful

Local democracy
Toquevilles analysis (best social sciences through and in all times)
Local democracy and a sufficient number of wins and voted for

Italy-USA-England one part

Otherwise, we go over (our leaders are capable sas is not this)
Just as Tolkiens world = kind of democracy
Experts (knowledge = implemntera and make on the basis of a policy). See paradigm which today replaced (and the judgement then made some wrong with that thinking).
See, all senior experts (Cambridge) judgement is as firm in thinking, etc. (and believe theories be right). Empirical and darwinism therein (choose above simply so you can manipulate a world - so it is doing and stand up for generations and centuries)
Tex da Vinci world paint a picture and get it designed (like trees) and stimulants that integrate the interface ml of our world and the states (perception).

Technical solutions that are most important

And ordinary people who say the truth = do this for överlevnadsvärdet (democracy)

And we are going into space (also överlevnadsvärde 2.0)

Egenintresset = so strong force
Turn on a sufficient number who actively take responsibility

Otherwise they look more like something like kyanite or staurolite or some amphibole like tremolite or actinolite to me. I’m not sure that gypsum is usually shaped like that. They do cross the way kyanite or staurolite would. (Could you have two rock types? In your beach photo, the ones with little crystals look slightly darker.)

Sometimes, for rock and mineral guessing, if you upload a larger picture, then when we click on it, we can see it closer and in more detail.

Do you ever find trilobites just lying around in those tide pools?

Im 95% its oil shale since the area is full of it otherwise and known for it, covering the cambrian quartzites of the region. Its deep solid black brittle and almost a little bit oily to the touch and sight. And in some other pieces I picked up there where obvious fossils (brachiopods) wich I never heard of being found in .

So if its not possible to find in oil shale, then its not it I guess. It looks like something grown and I also remeber fining other pieces of shale there on the beach which hade much larger pieces of these bright granules inside of them, but they where much more irregular in shape.

On googling the net I found this picture of a oil shale with pyrite. I know that my picture above doesnt show it, but the crystal looks just the same up close, only smaller. http://www.humboldt.edu/~natmus/lifeThroughTime/PreCam.web/PyrShale7.JPG

Aaah, the joys of doing “float” geology in a glaciated terrain!

Its a bronze age ships - one of the most common things found on scandinavian rock carvings. The scandinavian bronze age was very rich and has left a lot of traces in nature like carvings and tombs (so called “tumulus” in latin). Compared to the viking age wich hardly left anything at all in comparison.

The other things are axes. Bronze axes like these:
http://www.orebrolansmuseum.se/e18/bilder/bronsaldersyxa.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/stenrose_och_teg/bilder/holkyxa.jpg
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/img/BR00094.jpg

Magma Cum Laude: http://magmacumlaude.blogspot.com/2008/04/stop-whining.html

As for the whining of some people in the U.S., yes, it’s there, and it has been ridiculed in parts of the Geoblogosphere, e.g. here - also, I think a lot of it is just media hype: they are always “dooming and glooming.”

http://www.teslamotors.com/

I came to hear of the company as I read one of Richard Dawkins travel-articles, he was hoping that the new technology for electric cars might eventually kill off oil use.

http://richarddawkins.net/article,1195,Observer-Diary-27th-May-2007,Richard-Dawkins

But … people on the bottom economic rung ARE suffering and that’s why it’s in the news so much here. It’s fine to say “too bad, it’s your own fault” … I do it all the time … but, it’s not unreasonable to be worried for those in society who simply can’t adapt to the change.

I’m not sure I understand this statement: “The simple fact that you measure gasoline by the gallons, and not something smaller like litres says a lot about your history.”

Nice post

The only problem I have with this post is that the desire for social freedoms is ‘very liberal’.

Far from it - ironically, in the US we have a situation where liberals don’t want people to say certain things that aren’t politically correct and we have conservatives raging on about free speech and other social freedoms and how PC is anti-Christianity…then getting angry about ‘The Gay Plan’ and shit like that when it is mentioned. In short, both sides of the political fence have their problems with social rights *they* view as unnecessary and these extend past free speech (as an example from the right, gay marriage; as an example from the left, gun ownership rights). The people that fight hardest for civil rights (all of them) tend to be libertarians who are thought of as right-wing by US standards since ‘no government intervention’ means a free-market. If anyone is wondering, I don’t classify myself as a libertarian - I generally like the philosophy but can’t take it wholesale since I think there are a few areas in which it is necessary for the government to intervene.

I’d also like to point out that this sort of stuff isn’t necessarily sparked off by America. Free speech rights have been under attack in Canada for a while in the form of laws that allow someone to sue you for ‘offending’ them and Australia is heading in a similar direction, too.

Here are a couple of examples:

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/06/boissoin_case_ends_in_unjust_r.php (I linked to the blog rather than the original report since I think the post provides a perfect analysis of the situation)

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/30/1214677946009.html

And here’s a link to where I got that second article from because I think the banner is pretty damn funny: http://www.metal-rules.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=63887

It’s interesting to contemplate that instead of saying 9/11 as “nine-eleven,” if you say it as “nine-one-one” that is the number we dial (here in the US) for an emergency. Loss of real freedom is indeed an emergency. Some people here have been “up in arms” about the post-9/11 infringements of freedoms in this country from the start; possibly that is becoming more widespread.

The blogging thing is a drag if it passes. Eventually, though, the internet or blogosphere will work out a way to do what it wants - we can all do what spammers or scammers do, however it is they do it, by modifying our true IP address and becoming untrackable. At least I think that’s one possible eventual solution. Or we’ll all become like James Bond and have multiple identities - still kind of strange for blogging, though - either using your real name or being anonymous seems better than making up some new identity! And I guess if they were real concerned they could just shut down all connections - a little harder to do now that phones connect to the internet.

Maybe I need more coffee; it’s 5:00 am here. Seriously, though, I hope that in Sweden you can gather people together against this sort of thing, maybe at the universities.