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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 980591, member: 5833"]Thanks. Wish there were a different term, as it is not fossilized the way petrified wood is, the organic material has not been replaced by other minerals.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom of the bobcat could not look more like this illustration of a walrus tusk cross section from FWS:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.fws.gov/lab/images/walrtus.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Looks as though carver worked with the natural shape of the material instead of trying to force it to be a bobcat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 980591, member: 5833"]Thanks. Wish there were a different term, as it is not fossilized the way petrified wood is, the organic material has not been replaced by other minerals. The bottom of the bobcat could not look more like this illustration of a walrus tusk cross section from FWS: [IMG]https://www.fws.gov/lab/images/walrtus.jpg[/IMG] Looks as though carver worked with the natural shape of the material instead of trying to force it to be a bobcat.[/QUOTE]
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