✅ SOLVED Strange Find

[yaha tinda]

Any idea what this is?

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I bet it's fairly close to water.

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Bob it is in a riverbed and mother nature made it, It is the root ball burl of a tree.

 

[Backwoodsbob]

That would preserve it. And it still could be as I said.

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[Mud Hut]

The consensus is burl but it could be a crazy old man that was frozen in time after seeing Medusa.

Burl Ives?

 

[Bruce R]

I nearly wet myself laughing.

 

[Discrimination Dave]

undoubtedly Ambergris

 

[osage express]

Drumheller Hoodoos - East Coulee - Hiking Alberta | Hiking with Barry The guy is in Canada .If you look at the link half way down you will see about the same type petrified wood .Also YaHa Tinda is a place in Canada

 

[yaha tinda]

Although you've told us nothing about the size or material, by your screen name I presume this is in Alberta, in which case I'd go with it as an odd natural rock formation prevelant there as the result of extreme erosion conditions.

Approx 3 feet in length, a flattened cone shape. It is solid rock that has whitened due to exposure to the elements, the underside is much darker. there are some faint concentric lines. A surface coal seam was located upstream and some petrified wood was found in the vicinity.

 

[yaha tinda]

I was with everyone else on burl wood.....But the redish rust or iron looking spots makes it look like rock. Strange looking whatever it is! Kind of cool!

it is solid rock

 

[yaha tinda]

Drumheller Hoodoos - East Coulee - Hiking Alberta | Hiking with Barry The guy is in Canada .If you look at the link half way down you will see about the same type petrified wood .Also YaHa Tinda is a place in Canada

Very similar, thanks.

 

[yaha tinda]

It is located in western Alberta.

 

[yaha tinda]

Your right, I didn't even think that far, to think of petrified wood. Either way? It would have to come home with me if I found it!

I'd like to fetch it home too but the logistics of getting it there are rather daunting. But I have a plan..../

 

[Bruce R]

So it's not wood ? Then it's a whopping big oyster shell !

 

[nhbenz]

Whoa, think of the size pearl that might be in there! You have to get back there with a pry bar.

 

[kcm]

If that's rock (and it still looks like wood to me), PLEASE search upstream for the source!! If rock, there was a lot of swirling magna at one time that might just hold some really good mineral values.

 

[yaha tinda]

The consensus is burl but it could be a crazy old man that was frozen in time after seeing Medusa.

Just realized what you meant, spooky.

 

[Backwoodsbob]

It's Jesuit,like I said. Now someone is seeing it the way it's supposed to be seen. There is more on it. Use different angles an you will see.

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Bob it is in a riverbed and mother nature made it, It is the root ball burl of a tree.

Nailed it....

 

[Backwoodsbob]

It's a rock. So go back to your boat

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[Backwoodsbob]

TH ,are you from fla? If so, I would think you would know a little more.

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[Treasure_Hunter]

TH ,are you from fla? If so, I would think you would know a little more.

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Bob I have lived in 9 states and been in every National park and every state west of New England states.

Your comment is an insult so be careful..