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Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Fluorescent Petrified Wood
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Ever tried shining an ultraviolet light on your fossils? About 60% of fossil shells fluoresce. I discovered one morning as I was admiring my fossil shells this way, that my petrified wood seems to match those statistics.  Below you can see what they look like under visible light. 

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Blue Forest Petrified Wood, Eocene, Wyoming

 

 

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Petrified Cypress Wood, Miocene, Delaware

 

 

 

 

 

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Heather,

I appreciate your impressive skills with a camera, and also the willingness to share the beauty of your fossil collection.

For the ones you identify as Cypress,  how can you differentiate?

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