[meteorite-list] what could this be?

[Dave Freeman mjwy]

I am a dud wood collector!   I looked but didn't see the connection.  As 
I scramble for a second look, palm because of the vascular sell bundle 
placement in the trunk (and root ball) will have a mostly predictable 
form when it fractures apart. As a piece it will be fractured with 
curved but rather flat-ish lines and would expose the "broom straw" 
side/lateral views of the water transporting vascular cell bundles, as 
like a celery stalk. Most of the palm from eastern Texas is Catahoula 
fm. and of Oligocene in age but there may well be a larger less 
beautiful amount of eocene or cretaceous located elsewhere in the state.
Davemissedit

JKGwilliam wrote:

> Interesting guess Norm, I thought the same thing when I saw the 
> picture.  I even went to one of my display cabinets and pulled out a 
> piece of petrified palm to compare to the picture and it is very similar
>
> JKG
>
> At 08:54 PM 5/25/2005, Norm Lehrman wrote:
>
>> Harlan & all,
>>
>> My best guess is that it might be a fragment of
>> petrified palm or cycad root. There is a pattern of
>> dark circular features at the bottom edge that look
>> like vascular tissues.
>>
>> Note that the analytical report pictured says "<2 ppm"
>> iridium, which is to say iridium was absolutely
>> undetectable with the technique employed, despite the
>> seller's verbage to the contrary.  I guess they are
>> not familiar with the "less than" symbol.
>>
>> The part of the newspaper article you can see in one
>> of the photos says that the rock is mostly white
>> calcite.  Hardly a meteorite candidate, but apparently
>> good enough to suck in several bidders!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Norm
>> (http://TektiteSource.com )
>>
>> --- harlan trammell <skyrox at hotmail.com> wrote:
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