A giant petrified palm tree stump stands beside a house in Roma, Texas. The former landowner brought dozens of petrified trees and oyster shells to line his property in the 1930s.

Petrified palm trees and oyster shells A few miles west in the small border town of Roma, a house is lined with petrified palm tree stumps and giant oyster shell remains that also were formed from the ...

A giant petrified palm tree stump stands beside a house in Roma, Texas. The former landowner brought dozens of petrified trees and oyster shells to line his property in the 1930s.