[meteorite-list] what could this be?

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu May 26 12:36:29 2005
Message-ID: <20050526163615.24100.qmail_at_web51709.mail.yahoo.com>

<http://members.aol.com/Waucoba7/redrock/petrified13.html>

I agree with Dave.

Can't speak with any experience for fossil palm root
from that part of Texas, but the above web page has a
series of good images of Palmoxylodon mohavensis from
the Mojave Desert. Click on "Go" to see each image.

But to see a good example of what Norm Lehrman
described as bundles of "vascular tissue", go to the
bottom of this web page and look at the "tree ferns":

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/trjune99.htm

You judge for yourself, but in many cases, these "out
of place" rocks turn out to be a transported volcanic
breccia. (And in some other well-publicised cases,
just some bizzare piece of "slag".)

Bob V.

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[meteorite-list] what could this be?
Dave Freeman mjwy dfreeman at fascination.com
Thu May 26 11:05:23 EDT 2005

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

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