Could you please help to ID?

[Octave]

Greetings Masters

 

What an unbelievable forum here.

I found this during my walk on the beach, difficult for me to determine if it is a simple rock, a petrified wood or a petrified bone.

Please find the pictures (scale in cm).

Thank you everybody.

 

Octave

 

[Rockwood]

Sorry. All I can see here is a rock.

It does have a look that makes me pause at wood, but I'm fairly certain it isn't.

[Octave]

Dear Rockwood

 

Thank you a lot.

 

 

[Rockwood]

9 minutes ago, Octave said:

Dear Rockwood

 

Thank you a lot.

 

 

Your very welcome.

Thank you for providing me with a hobby.

 

[Octave]

Dear Rockwood And other masters,

 

For my curiosity.

 

How are you very confident that it is not ?

 

Thank you so much.

 

 

 

 

 

[Rockwood]

It is hard to explain without using the term texture. The shape and arrangement of the layers doesn't have the look of being annual the way wood grows. Some lines are not parallel. The fracturing betrays that fact in a very rock like way. Basically it's a mental exercise in comparing a block of wood to chunk of shale. 

I've worked up fire wood every winter since I was big enough to swing an ax, and when I was five a civil engineer gave my mother, brother, and I, a ride up the road while they blasted shale from the end of our driveway. 

[Octave]

Dear Rockwood,

 

I understand.

Thank you for your explanations and next time I will bring a real one.

Have a good week end.

 

 

 

 

 

[DPS Ammonite]

A close up shot of the end of the piece where you might see growth rings would be helpful. Are you able to take a photo through a hand lens using a phone camera? Near microscopic photos are going to solve this. It is always frustrating not being able to see things like this in person. My nearsightedness along with a 10x hand lens can usually give an anwer to these types of questions. 

[Octave]

Thank you everybody to answer to my obvious questions…

 

But, for a reason that I ignore, this rock does obsessed me, since it is sitting on my desk…

 

I understand the explanations about circle wood grows. And I don’t see any.

 

i share just the picture, about the end of the piece, just for illustration of this topic.

Thank you again.

 

Octave

 

[Rockwood]

36 minutes ago, Octave said:

I understand the explanations about circle wood grows.

Wood grain need not be circular shaped in the end grain. An incomplete section could be any shape imaginable. It virtually always will exhibit an annular layering however. Sometimes, especially in tropical woods, it is difficult to detect.

I'm afraid these photos do not help the case for it's being wood. Quite the contrary. It is very stone like looking, in my opinion.

 

[Octave]

Merci for all your comments