Fossilized/Phosphatized wood (Apatite - rare) Kay Robertson Coll.

Santa Fe River, Gilchrist County, Florida
Small Cabinet, 7.2 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm
Start Time: 07/27/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 08/03/2017 6:30:44 pm (CDT)
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A rare minutely fossilzed tree limb has been replaced/phosphatized by apatite. This Cenozoic Era (65 MYBP to present) gently river tumbled specimen is from the Santa Fe River rivershed of Northern Florida. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 2017 and acquired in the late 1940s or earlier. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record).

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