KDF-TX Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Is this a piece of weathered snakewood? It's unlike any of the petrified wood or palm I've found. approx 8 x 4 x 1.5 cm Thanks, Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 The surface texture is pretty weird, but the internal structure is at least palm-like. Real interesting piece. "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Menser Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Hey...it don't look like me!!!! Be true to the reality you create. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen_turkey Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Looks like a palm to me but i have little expereance in this area. -Frozen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldom Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Yea I have to say palm Galveston Island 32 miles long 2 miles wide 134 bars 23 liquor stores any questions? Evolution is Chimp Change. Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain! "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Not snakewood. Looks like possibly a piece or palm or cycad from near the root (the ugly side). Very interesting piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texaswoodie Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Cycad would have a diamond pattern which I don't see in this piece. I'm going to agree with Mike and say Palm from near the root. That's a great piece and definitely shelf worthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDF-TX Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 Thanks for the replies. The consensus is palm and possibly from near the root. I dug through a couple buckets and found this one. Similar structure but more "quartzitised". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texaswoodie Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Can't tell for sure from the photo, but that one looks more like a rotten hardwood with quartz drusy. There is a lot of that in SE Tx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 the two pieces you've shown are not particularly unusual for the yegua formation wood in the bryan area. and i believe they've been correctly id'd as palm and partially rotten hardwood that grew druzy crystals in the voids. degree of mineralization varies fairly widely there, with some pieces of wood having completely transformed to waxy-looking chert with no grain-structure remaining, and other pieces having all grain structure present and looking exactly like pieces of wood, except for their heft. that area is fun to hunt, but the formation that exists there with wood in it goes all the way from over in louisiana down into south texas, so if you get bored, you can follow that ancient coastline and see how wood compares from other yegua sites. look at the "band" labeled Ec2. link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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