Petrified thingy SOLVED

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CoolFrayers

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OK, I have been amazed by how things get identified on here, so I want to see if anyone has a clue; as for me I am stumped.
7 years ago I was traveling through Arizona, it was hot, I was tired of driving, so I went for a stroll. On my little stroll, I came across what you see below; what the bleepers is it?
It "looks" like a petrified bone of some sort. The strange thing is (which the pictures do not show) the outside of it sparkles. It looks like thousands of little sand particles inbedded into the "thingy".
I am not saying it is a petrified bone, just my guess, which as my wife informs me, I am usually wrong.

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i know this may sound stupid, but seen many examples of this having been in the water works / plumbing industry for years
looks like an old section of a steel water pipe, over the years the reaction of the water and steel will close up the the inside of the pipe, restricting the flow.
It would take the water company to ream out the home water service pipe to restore the flow
will happen fast when a brass water fitting is in direct contact with the steel.
The metal process name eludes me at this time
 

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Looks like it could be a piece of raw "Red Mahogany Obsidian"
You should be able to google something.
Regards:somehiker
 

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Felinepeachy said:
Is it metallic at all. Does you md react to it?
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Nope, not metallic at all. It was found in the desert; maybe I should have included that in the description...ooops. Told you my wife thinks I am a moron, :P

Gonna go and google raw "Red Mahogany Obsidian"


........ok, I'm back, nope, that's not it.
It "looks" like metal, but it's not. I am still going with petrified thingy for now...... I wish that I could hand it around so everyone could really get a better look.

PBK, where are you?
 

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looks alot like rope lava. although the piece that i have is alot darker black color that could eaisly be from the minerals inside of it, and the hole doesnt go all the way through mine. i would get you a pic, but its inside my fishtank and covered with moss. my first thought before i saw the hole in it was that its a piece of iron ore that has been in contact with water and rusted, but if thats the case it should attract a magnet. just my thoughts... good luck...
 

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Looks to me like a water shaft from a natural spring. It probably broke off. Is there a spring in the area?
 

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That looks just like one of those things that are formed when lightning strikes the sand. I don't remember what it is called but it has to be one. When lightning strikes the sand it fuses into tube kind of rock. Try looking up info on lightning. I bet that is what it is.
 

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dennisdunigan said:
That looks just like one of those things that are formed when lightning strikes the sand. I don't remember what it is called but it has to be one. When lightning strikes the sand it fuses into tube kind of rock. Try looking up info on lightning. I bet that is what it is.
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Interesting concept, been googling Fulgurites, trying to find a match.
I was hoping it was part of an aliens petrified leg; never know in those deserts
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Someone has something on Ebay that looks pretty darned similar:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...Track=true&ssPageName=VIP:Watchlink:middle:us

Then someone responded with this to the seller on Ebay:
it appears to be a concretion made by lightning, limonite and sand. being a double branch where one electrical branch grew next to the main body of another branch,and both leaving a gaseous vapor opening. though the sides are soft, smmoth, and without branches covering the outershell. I might of been caused by erosion for over several million years. Although the ends aren't so naturally looking eroded. Though I've seen breaks similar in my searches.
 

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CoolFrayers said:
Yeah, it appears more than one person was correct.
A Fulgurite Concretion will be the final word on this.
Thanks everyone.
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I think it might be this “ROOT-SHAPED FERRUGINOUS CONCRETION”  but I am not positive.  Here is a citation and the description is identical to what I see in your picture.  I remember seeing these in my undergraduate days in geology and have seen them in the field as well.  However, I wouldn’t stake my 25 years as a professional geologist on it without more information

POST-PLEISTOCENE DEVELOPMENT OF ROOT-SHAPED
FERRUGINOUS CONCRETIONS  “RONALD D. STIEGLITZ2 and ROBERT G. VAN HORN, Ohio Department of Natural Resources,Division of Geological Survey, Columbus, OH 43224.

ABSTRACT. During investigations of the surficial geology of Summit County, Ohio,
concretions were noted at several locations in the bed and banks of the East Fork Rocky
River. The concretions are generally root-shaped, noncalcareous, and concentrically
banded by iron hydroxide, with a prominent central tube. They are found in the
uppermost portion of Pleistocene lake sediments below coarse sand and gravel. Because
the concretions are restricted in occurrence to a few specific localities, their formation
results from a unique combination of stratigraphy, materials of the deposit, ground water
conditions and the penetration of the silt by plant roots. The concretions are presently
forming in the fine-grained silts where roots promote the oxidation of iron compounds
by withdrawing water, facilitating the entry of oxygen, and altering surrounding
pH conditions.
OHIO
 

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