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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. ----------- Original Message ------------ [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 ---------------------- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
