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  1. Breezy2428

    Snake Wood or Palm Wood?

    Hello. Thoughts if this is palm wood or snake wood? Is it agatized or opalized? Found in Karnes County, Texas Thanks for any input!
  2. fgiarro

    Fossil wood?

    I have this specimen sold as fossil wood (without other info) in my collection. The shape and circularity of the visible rings of crystals could confirm this, but actually I'm not sure about it- I'd like to hear the opinion of some experts. Thanks in advance.
  3. collector

    North Sulfur river, Texas finds

    We are western New Yorkers but with family in Texas ~2 hours from the North Sulfur river we decided to go fossil hunting. We hired a guide for the first time and fit one more trip in before coming home. The guide was super nice and gave us a number of his finds and we ended up with mosasaur vertebrae, a camel toe bone, fossil wood, exogyra shells, etc. I have some questions. In the 1st and 3rd pics, #1 is an unknown to me. The brown area is shiny like the enamel of 2,3,4. Our guide gave us 2&3 explaining that 2 is mammoth and 3 is mastodon. I found 4 and it is similar to 3. Are there a great differences in how bits of enamel look? Is mastodon enamel always thicker and is 2 a random shape or not. 5,6,7, 10 are unknowns. Does someone know what type of bivalve 8 & 9 might be? In picture #4 do all of the pieces look like fossil wood? There is an end shot of the piece with the pink on top and I wondered if it could be palm wood and is it possible to know what other types of wood are found in this river? I am guessing that the teeth in the next pic are from cows not bison just because they look newer. Is that reasonable to assume and maybe not big enough? in the 2nd pic, the largest bone is mosasaur. It has layers that I wondered about and is that a common presentation? The smaller bones don’t look like the mosasaur bones we have. Can you say by looking at them that they are not? Thank you for taking the time to look at all of these. Patti
  4. HollyNoelle.90

    Fossil Wood

    Found in my Yard near Cedar Creek Lake..its pretty.
  5. I was hunting a Miocene site in New Zealand when my friend cried out “wow! Wow!….wow!” From a few meters away. Well I thought that’s three wows, this must be something pretty good. She had found the biggest piece of petrified wood I’d ever seen at this site. Pretty good! Not too common as this is outer shelf sediment. We looked around and I found another piece - comparison showed that they fit together…..ok that ups the ante a bit. the whole thing is now about 50cm long well I set the pieces aside and kept looking and mulling over whether to keep this specimen. It’s big, and there’s a big hike out. Maybe I’m better off collecting a photo instead? The time came to decide and I picked up a piece to have closer look…..hang on - that’s a big fish vert in there! You can also see bones and scales poking out the sides. How did we miss this? We were blinded by the excitement of find the massive chunk of wood. My guesstimate of what’s going on below. X-rays confirmed we have an almost complete fish in there. But the piece with the skull in was too thick and dense for X-rays to penetrate. But you can see skull bones protruding out the front You can see the verts running the length of concretion in this image of the second (left hand) block so probably missing the tail? What an interesting association. I tell you though, it was one tricky job stabilizing that wood! It’s poorly mineralised.
  6. Corey.haysom

    Is this bone or wood

    I dug this up out of a riverbed and it looks like a tree stump but it also looks very much like bone
  7. I found an object I think is fossil wood or bone at low tide near Malibu, CA a few days ago. This is my first post & I have no experience, so any ID help would be greatly appreciated!
  8. Fossil_hunter1223

    petrified wood collection

    Here is a collection of some of the petrified wood pieces I have collected over the years that I thought were cool. My favorite pieces is are the one that looks partially burned and the log.
  9. mr fossil

    Fossil wood?

    Hello i found this peculiar fossil while looking for late neogene coral fossils(which I found) I’ve fossil hunted in this area for years and haven’t found anything like this so I was thinking maybe this is petrified wood from when Arabia was green 15-4000 years ago what are your thoughts? I would love to know thank you I appreciate it
  10. DVL

    Possible Petrified Wood?

    I'm told this may be petrified wood but it looks a bit different from the petrified wood I've seen from the southwestern states. Found on a beach in northeast US. Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you --Dwight
  11. My interest is in current earth conditions that would be amenable to the creation of fossils, specifically petrified wood. I want to place wood in a position where it will be likely to form petrified wood at some point in the distant future for an artistic project. I am not a scientist, although I am reasonably scientifically literate. Nevertheless, there may be blind spots in my assumptions here. I would love to hear any thoughts that forum members might have. I would imagine a group of experienced fossil hunters might have a good idea of what past conditions have been good for fossilization. It may be strange to ask but oddly topical as well - humans have been doing a lot of musing on the future fossils they are creating now. I have done a lot of research to this end, but have not found anything definitive. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place. What I have managed to glean indicates that wood placed in sediments rich in silica may fossilize. This is very broad, but it is a start. My first thought was recent volcanic ash deposits like near Mt St Helens, but due to the cataclysm that laid the ash, there is likely to be a lot of wood in those deposits well situated to fossilize. I would prefer a situation where the petrified wood would be unusual and likely to stand out to the future intelligent being encountering the piece. There are many valleys in Nevada with non-draining basins that have seasonal lakes, and many of these are reasonably rich in silica, being derived from surrounding mountain ranges that are composed of silica-rich rock. This might be a good location, although I am still wondering about depth of placement, best soil moisture levels, and whether the alkaline conditions would be a problem. Another idea for a place would be a Volcanic Ash Flow Vernal Pool such as Boggs Lake in California. I am not sure what the pH of this soil is- fresh volcanic ash can be very acidic, but this would leach out over time, possibly creating an alkaline situation as the closed lake basin accumulates salts. Any help would be very much appreciated! I am looking for places in the western US, but really any place given as an example would be helpful. Daniel
  12. pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon

    Oddly shaped bone in pebble from Cap Gris Nez

    Hi all, Found this pebble on the beach close to Audresselles (Cap Gris Nez area, Boulonnais) amidst the heavy rain and wind yesterday. Initially, I thought it was just a piece of odd-looking fossilised plant-material, with a faint thought in the back of my mind that may be it could be a fish skull. When I checked it this morning, I was able to confirm the piece is smooth on the outside, and seems to have what appears to be bone fibres on the inside. In other words, I'm convinced now that it actually is bone, though still have no idea what kind...
  13. I found 4 nice good-size specimens of petrified wood, from the Newark Basin Triassic sedimentary deposits, in southeastern Pennsylvania. Photo shows that all pieces are a light chocolate brown color. There is a quarter coin for scale. These are from the same location where I previously found two large specimens, which I posted a few years ago. This material seems to be rather scarce.
  14. FossilHunterNYC

    Sherman, TX bone fragments and rocks

    Found a bunch of specimens from Oak Creek in Sherman TX. Is the first and fourth picture fossilized wood ? The second picture is very light and porous.
  15. Hi all, hope everyone is safe and healthy in these troubled times. What a great time to go over your collections and plan for the next trip. Found some info regarding fossils (Geo report) and petrified wood found near Stemwinder Park, Pickard Creek area between Princeton (fossil mecca) and Hedley B.C. Anyone know of the site? Example from someones find, undisclosed spot. We were going thru that area for work, now cancelled, so can't really justify the exploratory trip, but love to dream. . Just noticed the auctions! Must check here more often!! If you must foray out on rock trips, keep your adventures moderate! (I am a search and rescue first responder). Roweness
  16. Oxytropidoceras

    Fossil Wood Petrification and mineralogy

    Mustoe, G.E., 2015. Late Tertiary petrified wood from Nevada, USA: Evidence of multiple silicification pathways. Geosciences, 5(4), pp.286-309. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/5/4/286 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282851612_Late_Tertiary_Petrified_Wood_from_Nevada_USA_Evidence_of_Multiple_Silicification_Pathways https://sciprofiles.com/profile/112497 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George_Mustoe Mustoe, G. and Acosta, M., 2016. Origin of petrified wood color. Geosciences, 6(2), no.25. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/6/2/25 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302497324_Origin_of_Petrified_Wood_Color Mustoe, G.E., 2017. Wood petrifaction: A new view of permineralization and replacement. Geosciences, 7(4), no.119. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/7/4/119/htm https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4ff7/8f7c6899c4459c4f33e4d51c040f6374685d.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321170639_Wood_Petrifaction_A_New_View_of_Permineralization_and_Replacement Mustoe, G.E., 2018. Mineralogy of non-silicified fossil wood. Geosciences, 8(3), no.85. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/3/85/htm https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323540027_Mineralogy_of_Non-Silicified_Fossil_Wood Mustoe, George E. "Non-mineralized fossil wood." Geosciences (8) no.223. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/6/223 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325827782_Non-mineralized_Fossil_Wood Luczaj, J.A., Leavitt, S.W., Csank, A.Z., Panyushkina, I.P. and Wright, W.E., 2018. Comment on “Non-Mineralized Fossil Wood” by George E. Mustoe (Geosciences, 2018). Geosciences, 8(12), no.462. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/12/462/htm Mustoe, G.E., Viney, M. and Mills, J., 2019. Mineralogy of Eocene fossil wood from the “Blue Forest” locality, southwestern Wyoming, United States. Geosciences, 9(1), no.35. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/9/1/35 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330292211_Mineralogy_of_Eocene_Fossil_Wood_from_the_Blue_Forest_Locality_Southwestern_Wyoming_United_States Mustoe, G.E., 2015. Geologic History of Eocene Stonerose Fossil Beds, Republic, Washington, USA. Geosciences, 5(3), pp.243-263. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/5/3/243 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279786883_Geologic_History_of_Eocene_Stonerose_Fossil_Beds_Republic_Washington_USA Yours, Paul H.
  17. Oxytropidoceras

    Uranium Mineralization of Fossil Wood

    Mustoe, G.E., 2020. Uranium Mineralization of Fossil Wood. Geosciences (Switzerland) 10(4):1-25 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340609903_Uranium_Mineralization_of_Fossil_Wood https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/4/133 Yours, Paul H.
  18. whippoorwill

    Is this rock or petrified wood?

    This looks like petrified wood to me but I've had no success looking online to see how to determine if my hunch is real or not. I'd appreciate any help or suggestions about whether or not this is petrified wood. (Item is wet in the pictures) Thanks!
  19. I just inherited a large pink petrified piece of wood anybody know where it might be from sorry I have no info.
  20. Found this antiquing. Was only marked "petrified rock"..It is black & charcoal gray in color with a vertical ribbed texture and some rounded ends. Measures 6.5" tall x 5.5" x 4" and weighs 8lbs 1.1 oz. Is it petrified wood ? Petrified cactus? Or something else? It's only letting me upload 1 photo. Took pics with phone and guess their too big. Will try to post more.
  21. Hardtimehermit

    Petrified burnt stick

    I found this 6 inch stick in a wash in central Nevada. I was in a area outside of Gabbs where petrified wood is found. The stick is only 3/4 of an inch wide and 1/4 inch thick. One tip looks burnt by fire and leads me to wonder if this could have been a cave man's fire stick. Has anyone seen petrified wood like this?
  22. Bronto

    Closeup Of A Rip cut.

    From the album: The James Universe

    Found on an Austin Gem & Mineral field trip to the Bordovsky farm. Karnes county......Sat on my back porch for 8 years. Realized a nice man was collecting Mennegoxylon jonesii specimens and sold it to Rod Miller. Who sent me these spectacular images of the innards. I could not bring myself to cut it. But- when you need gas money for cutting rough collection & backpacking?

    © ©Rod Miller

  23. Bronto

    Outer rind on Palmoxylon

    From the album: The James Universe

    Polygonal cracking is rare but not unheard of from peat bogs of Great Britain, fossil woods from south & west Texas, Tom Miner basin, etc.. The colloquial name is "Shrinkwood".

    © ©James Lopez

  24. Bronto

    Palmoxylon

    From the album: The James Universe

    Rip cut of a fossil palmwood. Made a spectacular carving out of the gone side. This side is better.

    © ©James Lopez

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