Link Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 This will probably be an easy ID... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fig rocks Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 This will probably be an easy ID... Link, I don't think so, your link isn't working! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traviscounty Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I can see it. It does look like petrified wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Looks like it to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldom Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Looks like pet wood to me Galveston Island 32 miles long 2 miles wide 134 bars 23 liquor stores any questions? Evolution is Chimp Change. Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain! "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 Pet wood? Does it need walks? Seriously, this is my first fossil (that I've found)! Yay! ... This is the part where you guys say things like "nice find." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Pet wood? Does it need walks?Seriously, this is my first fossil (that I've found)! Yay! ... This is the part where you guys say things like "nice find." Nice find, Link. A shot of the "end", or cross-section, is always helpful is distiguishing pet wood from the laminar geology of cool rock. Sometimes it is easier to see the grain. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 Well, there's no "cross-section", really; it's mostly just a flat, maybe slightly curved piece of wood with some rocks cemented onto the back. I'm thinking that the rocks indicate that the specimen is older than the minimum time required for wood to petrify. Also, the petrified wood is soft (for a rock, that it; it's kind of like the hardness of bathroom tile). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auspex Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 ...with some rocks cemented onto the back... Hmmm... That's a little unusual for pet wood, in my limited experience. Mineral replacement doesn't usually cement rocks to the wood. Can you see growth rings or cell structure? "There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant “Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley >Paleontology is an evolving science. >May your wonders never cease! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Hmmm...That's a little unusual for pet wood, in my limited experience. Mineral replacement doesn't usually cement rocks to the wood. Can you see growth rings or cell structure? Sometimes the wood can be reworked into another formation and get other material attached to it. I have a piece I found at Whiskey Bridge that is partially covered with concretion material like the antler (I believe it was) that JohnJ found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkeye Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Pet wood? Does it need walks?Seriously, this is my first fossil (that I've found)! Yay! ... This is the part where you guys say things like "nice find." Nice find Link. If you believe everything you read, perhaps it's time for you to stop reading... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldom Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 O yea nice finds Link now go fine some more Galveston Island 32 miles long 2 miles wide 134 bars 23 liquor stores any questions? Evolution is Chimp Change. Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain! "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Ernest Hemingway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanK Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I may be wrong but it seems to me like Glossopteris. Look at the specimen I have. And discussion around this sp. http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?sh...5&hl=romank Roman http://s1143.photobu.../donbassfossil/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 I doubt it; Glossopteris wasn't native to North America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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