Wood?

[Geojonser]

 

 

I found this piece while walking along a building in Northern Germany...first I thought, "Huh?...this looks out of place"...I thought it was just a weather-worn veiny stone...Then I picked it up, saw the fractures and thought, "Wow!, what a nice piece of Chert or Chalcadony (va. Jasper) what are you doing here?"...The fractures are heavily weather-worn, conchoidial, opaque and with a dull luster...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After a while I began thinking that the shape, weathering and banding/striping was a bit unusual (mostly opinion at the time)...I wondered if it might be a fossil...a big Brach maybe?

 

Photos courtesy of the Google

 

...unlikely

After seeing close-ups while cropping the pics to post here, I thought, "Hmmm...I got wood?"...

It kinda looks like petrified bark to me now, but its "grainy or veiny" on both sides, which seems strange, to me, for a piece of bark...

Probably purely geologic combined with wishful thinking...it happens...although, if it is geology, it would be cool to come across a Genisis Jasper where it should not be

 

Photos courtesy of the Google

 

...ooops...doin' it again...sry

 

Anyway, either way its a beautiful specimen with an interesting story...

Any ideas or opinions?...thoughts will be greatly appreciated...thanks in advance...

Have a nice day

 

 

 

[Rockwood]

I don't think it's wood. Banded chert maybe. 

[grandpa]

Wood not.

[debivort]

I agree with @Rockwood: banded chert.

[Syndy]

It's super heated sapling, maple, or pine. Guessing. Unless is glass like, the mahogany  volcanic glass.

[Fossildude19]

On 5/6/2023 at 1:15 PM, Syndy said:

It's super heated sapling, maple, or pine. Guessing. Unless is glass like, the mahogany  volcanic glass.

No. It's banded chert.