Fossil right across from Wakeena Falls Necktie
Fossil right across from Wakeena Falls Necktie
I noticed this fossil in the rock wall along the old viewpoint trail at Wakeena Falls a few years ago. I always remembered it every time that I went back up there but always forgot to get a picture of it... until the other day. I was wondering if anyone else has seen it or knows what it is. It is on the wall of the old pathway right next to Wakeena Falls Necktie. So what was it
My hand for size comparison.
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Oh dear.....
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Hmm... looks vaguely familiar....
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Okay, if I really had to guess? It does look like a fossil (and not a basalt cooling feature), and I'm going to guess the trunk of a tree fern, palm or palmetto. Definitely a cool find! Can't believe I didn't see that..! Okay, well so I was death-gripping the railing and watching my feet, so that might have something to do with it...
Tom
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Okay, if I really had to guess? It does look like a fossil (and not a basalt cooling feature), and I'm going to guess the trunk of a tree fern, palm or palmetto. Definitely a cool find! Can't believe I didn't see that..! Okay, well so I was death-gripping the railing and watching my feet, so that might have something to do with it...
Tom
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Nice find Tim! That's awesome to come across something like that.
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I've puzzled over this, but I never thought it was a fossil since almost everything would have been consumed in the lava flows leaving only casts. Thus I advance the "lava pillar" theory. There's a layer of pillow lava near the top of Multnomah Falls, meaning that it cooled underwater. This may be in the same stratum, the pillar having formed and then surrounded later by yet another basalt flow.
I believe Tom is the geologist around here, so I could be dreadfully wrong.
I believe Tom is the geologist around here, so I could be dreadfully wrong.
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That was pretty funny. thanks for having someone look into it Tom.Splintercat wrote:Hmm... looks vaguely familiar....
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Bobcat...very informative thread. When I first saw this thing years ago I knew it looked out of place, not just another odd rock formation. I used to tell my kids that it was a dinosaur leg and that it was sleeping beneath the dirt. If they didn't behave it might wake up and get them. I hope someone can identify it because I really would like to know what it is.