grayfingers
Cave Dweller
Member since November 2007
Posts: 4,575
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Post by grayfingers on Feb 8, 2014 10:21:12 GMT -5
Nice cabs, Rich! Love all the forms one sees in the palms, and never tire of denrditic agates.
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Post by Rockoonz on Feb 8, 2014 12:59:15 GMT -5
Very nice cabs. I agree, good choice of shape with the bruneau. Palm root always rocks.
Lee #2
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Post by tandl on Feb 10, 2014 11:26:05 GMT -5
When i first saw the pet root cab i thought it was illinois psaronius fern .it is very very similar . depends where You got it . if from me some how , it is fern for sure . but some of the palm root looks very similar . i have sold quite a bit of rough,slab and polished specimens on ebay . if you got it on ebay, it could be a resaw resale.it looks that much like illinois psaronius . i have alot of pics on google and here on rth. Psaronious had roots going down the trunk as a support system to stand in the boggy conditions, and had roots at the trunk base . palm did not have roots down the trunk .psaronius had a pith xylem-wormy looking. i rarely find much pith in illinois specimens. the brazilian psaronius often has pith and the color is discernable from illinois psaronius . Telas psaronius is from brazil . As far as the shape of the roots of illinois psaronius, some specimens are compressed by the weight of the burial , likely a volcanic caused calamity. Nice cabs , all of them . that rhyolite may be hickoryite wonderstone.
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Post by pghram on Feb 10, 2014 14:33:15 GMT -5
Thanks greyfingers & Rockoonz.
Tandl, I bought the palm root slab in a tourist shop in Helen, GA called Zuzu's Petals. Perhaps they bought it from you? The rhyolite could be Hickoryite, I'll probably never know for sure. Thanks for the feedback.
Rich
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Feb 12, 2014 0:19:58 GMT -5
Chuck, your red/white striped one looks like mine -- it was sold to me as "Dugout Jasper". It's def soft, not jasper. Works well though.
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