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Found these at Port Mulgrave, Yorkshire  UK. They seem like tree stumps - soft and fibrous (as you can see in the first pic, I was able to penetrate it with my pick) - but I don't know why they're down here on the bedrock?

 

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I can't say just how they're preserved, but I think they must be fossil tree stumps. 

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Part of an old dock, or shipwreck?

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@thosemistycenturies It's vital that we know if they were on or in bedrock. They could also have been placed in artificial bore holes. My assumption was that they are in bedrock. 

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9 minutes ago, Rockwood said:

@thosemistycenturies It's vital that we know if they were on or in bedrock. They could also have been placed in artificial bore holes. My assumption was that they are in bedrock. 

Perhaps an old dock if they are embedded in the bedrock.

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3 minutes ago, Jaybot said:

Perhaps an old dock if they are embedded in the bedrock.

Depends on if it's who embedded or what embedded them. I'm fairly certain there are fossil stumps somewhere on shore of the UK. I just don't remember where. 

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I think your thinking of the fossil forest on the Dorset coast? 

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Soft, fibrous, easily penetrated by pickaxe, in the bedrock on the shore…. I’m in the old dock or piling camp myself……

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15 minutes ago, Randyw said:

Soft, fibrous, easily penetrated by pickaxe, in the bedrock on the shore…. I’m in the old dock or piling camp myself……

I found a log that fits the description sticking out of a sandstone bolder in Arlington Texas. It was clearly a fossil. Lignite also fits the description. Fossil wood needn't be hard. 

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4 hours ago, mighty micraster said:

I think your thinking of the fossil forest on the Dorset coast? 

Could be. I'm not sure it's relevant here though. :popcorn:

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7 minutes ago, Rockwood said:

Fossil wood needn't be hard. 

How do you determine that wood is fossilized if it's not hard?  

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Once upon a time I found fossilized wood in a Mesozoic layer of hardened marl and it was crumbling as if it were rotten.

 

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30 minutes ago, Fin Lover said:

How do you determine that wood is fossilized if it's not hard?  

Usually, it's the context. There probably are other means. The log I mentioned was quite stone like in places and sort of a brittle fibrous in others. 

I don't think we have enough evidence to make the call on this one. 

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Hi everyone. Yes, there used to be a dock here. Mystery solved! Thanks

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46 minutes ago, Fin Lover said:

How do you determine that wood is fossilized if it's not hard?

As already said, its the context (in situ).

Xylite for example, a form of lignite. Better named as mummified wood, but its a fossil, of course.

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23 minutes ago, thosemistycenturies said:

Hi everyone. Yes, there used to be a dock here. Mystery solved! Thanks

Thanks for the update!

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