Accretionary Wedge #40- Geo Pumpkins

Michael Klaas put out a call  for Geo-Pumpkins  here. And here's the finished Accretionarly Wedge #40.
To be honest I really wasn't in the mood to carve a pumpkin since I've been around them for a month, selling them to give the proceeds to local charities.  I was in charge of the discovery center and for a week I talked about pumpkins to 3 - 5 year olds.  I had about 2500 students come by.  Its lots of fun to see their reactions and I find it very rewarding. 
   I decided to do something very simple.  I had a little baseball pumpkin that I decided to use.  He had been tossed around and I was surprised he had not cracked open.  I thought of him being as hard as a geode.  It just made sense to turn him into a geode.

Geode Pumpkin

   (I am having a lot of trouble down loading images. Geode pumpkin took more than one try and two different images, I had moved on to another image when it up this one up, of the baseball pumpkin next to a geode.)

 

 I did show the pumpkin patch here with one of the unusual pumpkins.

 This was the sign I used to show how a pumpkin grows.  It also showed some of the world record pumpkins.  The largest was 1810.5 lbs grow by Chris Stevens of New Richmond WI on 10-9-2010,  and also the world record largest pumpkin pie 3,699 lbs baked in New Bremen Ohio.

I'm going to include some of the pumpkins I had the kids see and touch.  I thought that they were all pretty interesting. 
So here are my pumpkin friends that I would show.
The first one got called Casper the ghost since he was all white. Geode pumpkin is right next to him, before he metamorphosis into geode pumpkin. He could be considered to be chalk since he is so white.

 I called this one dendritic I mean trellis because of the way the color was channeled on him reminding of that type of drainage. Here's more views of it.

trellis drainage looking pumpkin

The next ones are shale in color so I called them that.

shale pumpkin

This was shale pumpkin since it looked like shale.  Here's another view of it.

 
 The next one looked Metamorphic to me.

This one I called serpentine since it was mostly green.  also it had that zone where it looked like it had been metamorphized into the color it was. This pumpkin had definitely undergone some usual processes for it to end up the way it did.

( This is really frustrating its not downloading what I want it to and is taking repeated attempts to get anything and when I do get it its not in the order I want it.)

Lava pumpkin

And this pumpkin would get the most reaction with a oh yeak!! I didn't know what to call it.  Maybe this should be my conglomerate pumpkin.

pumpkin floating in water

 Here's my square pumpkin I used when I would read about Spookley the Square pumpkin.

Now I muse upon what pumpkins I'll have next year.  Because they are always so different and varied.