Kittenmittens Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Hello just need help confirming an I'd tag. It has a tag that says fossil reeds, possibly Egypt but the owner wasn't sure since it was old stock from previous owner. It looks like reeds to me and sounds fossilized, but I can't find similar pieces searching the internet. What do the forum experts think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronzviking Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Looks like fossilized coral tubes to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Not fossilized reeds. These look like some sort of flowstone, stalagmites/stalagtites, to me. 1 Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 __________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittenmittens Posted March 27, 2019 Author Share Posted March 27, 2019 Thanks for the quick replies. A few more pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldigger Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Soda straws ( cave formation) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Agree with flowstone, cave formations. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 I think " soda straw " is correct for this kind of speleothem. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittenmittens Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 Thank you everyone, it was cheap so ill just move it from my fossil shelf to my mineral shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveE Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 8 hours ago, Kittenmittens said: Thank you everyone, it was cheap so ill just move it from my fossil shelf to my mineral shelf. Beware of accretion processes! Today "shelf"...... tomorrow "shelves"..... the day after tomorrow "rooms". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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