This nice little piece of gneiss is a serious survivor being about a billion years old. The glacier carried it down from Canada to Wayne County and dropped it here about 10,000 years ago. This pebble came from a metamorphic rock that originally formed ten miles or more beneath the earth’s surface.  After various eons orogenies and earthquakes later, it ended up on a refrigerator.

approximately 1 inch white quarztite Lake Ontario pebble refrigerator magnet

 A sailor with a white pebble in his pocket will never drown or so the folk lore says. A  white stone also gave a famous Scottish prophet the gift of foretelling the future. Consult this pebble before contributing to your next discount brokerage trade (and maybe check with the Motley Fools too just to be safe!)

the Beach Pebble Guide Laminated plastic photo key shows nine common varieties of beach pebbles with  brief descriptions of each. On reverse a short history of the ice age details how they all got here. Your water resistant pebble guide is also useful in an emergency as a rain hat or a fly swatter. Buy a couple to give to the young rock hounds in your family!