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3d Lepidodendron Branch Fragment


RomanK

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Almost looks like a tenderloin ready for the grill!

Are there many 3-D casts at that tip?

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RomanK...... Very Nice specimen Well done.... How long as that material been left exposed since it was mined to oxidise ? Sometimes we see red shale in our area (not quite as vivid) that has been heated and turned from grey to red by the coal underneath combusting.... ;)

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Almost looks like a tenderloin ready for the grill!

Are there many 3-D casts at that tip?

Agree with 'beef' interpretation. I've found only one. It was an old tip, partly removed to the other place. A lot of really big pieces of dead rock but almost nothing fossilised.

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RomanK...... Very Nice specimen Well done.... How long as that material been left exposed since it was mined to oxidise ? Sometimes we see red shale in our area (not quite as vivid) that has been heated and turned from grey to red by the coal underneath combusting.... ;)

60-70 years, I think. Red colour is because the dead rock contained the Sulfur reacting with Oxigen on the land surface.

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Hi Romank

color is surprising in France on the heaps of the north region I do not see often also colored red, beautiful part of Lepidodendron, Congratulations on your find....

bruno

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Hi Romank

color is surprising in France on the heaps of the north region I do not see often also colored red, beautiful part of Lepidodendron, Congratulations on your find....

bruno

Thanks, Bruno, that was an old partly removed tip. Unfortunately I found only one specimen there.

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