drusseau Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Please help me with this. I am new to this and completely absorbed in the wonder and mystery of real Florida treasure! If I need more or better pix, let me know. oh, Little Manatee River. Huge pile of ancient shells. Thank you guys. I was supposed to go on ID trip to Bishop but was rescheduled and I just can't wait...I got ants in my pants...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 I'm was gonna go with some kind of burrows but now thinking coral or sponge maybe? Clearer pictures would be helpful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drusseau Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 23 minutes ago, Lone Hunter said: I'm was gonna go with some kind of burrows but now thinking coral or sponge maybe? Clearer pictures would be helpful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drusseau Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 It has a solid central gray core... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Hunter Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Now just need an expert to come along.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhysicist Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Hello and welcome to the forum! Not an expert, but seeing that there aren't any bubbles/vesicles/voids, they aren't hollow, no branching, etc. there likely wasn't any significant heating going on with these - not fulgurites. I have a small fulgurite I could show, but can't get to it at the moment. Infilled burrows is a good guess, it's neat to have all those shell bits in there. ^ Pasek, M.A., Block, K. & Pasek, V. Fulgurite morphology: a classification scheme and clues to formation. Contrib Mineral Petrol 164, 477–492 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-012-0753-5 2 "Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument." - Carl Sagan "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there." - Richard Feynman Collections: Hell Creek Microsite | Hell Creek/Lance | Dinosaurs | Sharks | Squamates | Post Oak Creek | North Sulphur River | Lee Creek | Aguja | Permian | Devonian | Triassic | Harding Sandstone Instagram: @thephysicist_tff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drusseau Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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