[meteorite-list] what could this be?

[Robert Verish]

<http://members.aol.com/Waucoba7/redrock/petrified13.html>

I agree with Dave.

Can't speak with any experience for fossil palm root
from that part of Texas, but the above web page has a
series of good images of  Palmoxylodon mohavensis from
the Mojave Desert.  Click on "Go" to see each image.

But to see a good example of what Norm Lehrman
described as bundles of "vascular tissue", go to the
bottom of this web page and look at the "tree ferns":

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/trjune99.htm

You judge for yourself, but in many cases, these "out
of place" rocks turn out to be a transported volcanic
breccia.  (And in some other well-publicised cases,
just some bizzare piece of "slag".)

Bob V.

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[meteorite-list] what could this be?
Dave Freeman mjwy dfreeman at fascination.com 
Thu May 26 11:05:23 EDT 2005 

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

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