New Members thosemistycenturies Posted September 8 New Members Share Posted September 8 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? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 I can't say just how they're preserved, but I think they must be fossil tree stumps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Part of an old dock, or shipwreck? Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "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...
Rockwood Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 @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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaybot Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 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. 1 -Jay “The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mighty micraster Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 I think your thinking of the fossil forest on the Dorset coast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyw Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Soft, fibrous, easily penetrated by pickaxe, in the bedrock on the shore…. I’m in the old dock or piling camp myself…… 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fin Lover Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 7 minutes ago, Rockwood said: Fossil wood needn't be hard. How do you determine that wood is fossilized if it's not hard? Fin Lover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Once upon a time I found fossilized wood in a Mesozoic layer of hardened marl and it was crumbling as if it were rotten. Coco 1 ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Pareidolia : here Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members thosemistycenturies Posted September 9 Author New Members Share Posted September 9 Hi everyone. Yes, there used to be a dock here. Mystery solved! Thanks 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranzBernhard Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 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. Franz Bernhard 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randyw Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 23 minutes ago, thosemistycenturies said: Hi everyone. Yes, there used to be a dock here. Mystery solved! Thanks Thanks for the update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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