I am a dud wood collector! I looked but didn't see the connection. As
I scramble for a second look, palm because of the vascular sell bundle
placement in the trunk (and root ball) will have a mostly predictable
form when it fractures apart. As a piece it will be fractured with
curved but rather flat-ish lines and would expose the "broom straw"
side/lateral views of the water transporting vascular cell bundles, as
like a celery stalk. Most of the palm from eastern Texas is Catahoula
fm. and of Oligocene in age but there may well be a larger less
beautiful amount of eocene or cretaceous located elsewhere in the state.
Davemissedit
JKGwilliam wrote:
Interesting guess Norm, I thought the same thing when I saw the
picture. I even went to one of my display cabinets and pulled out a
piece of petrified palm to compare to the picture and it is very similar
JKG
At 08:54 PM 5/25/2005, Norm Lehrman wrote:
Harlan & all,
My best guess is that it might be a fragment of
petrified palm or cycad root. There is a pattern of
dark circular features at the bottom edge that look
like vascular tissues.
Note that the analytical report pictured says "<2 ppm"
iridium, which is to say iridium was absolutely
undetectable with the technique employed, despite the
seller's verbage to the contrary. I guess they are
not familiar with the "less than" symbol.
The part of the newspaper article you can see in one
of the photos says that the rock is mostly white
calcite. Hardly a meteorite candidate, but apparently
good enough to suck in several bidders!
Cheers,
Norm
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