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First of all, hello everybody! This is my first post! Need some help with identification of a tree jetstone, site is an Aptian quarry, in north central Bulgaria. During few visits and alot of digging I managed to recover few chunks of a tree stem or a branch turned into jetstone. Can you help me identify the type of flora I have? I couldn't find much information online, and I don't have proper flora paleontology books. Attached photos below. Thanks! P.S. First 3 chunks i have treated with b72, the bigger ones are still natural condition. Also i have found some ammonites in the same quarry, might attach photos of them if whould help.
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Found this slab of limestone digging out an old garden wall. I think it’s a large plant or small tree, approximately 15 inches long and 3-4 inches across. Not much detail visible in either end. Any help?
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Looking for a way to figure out what type of tree this pet wood is
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Hi, I have this huge piece of pet wood that I am hoping to figure out the age and what type of tree it is. I do not know where it came from it was left in my landscaping rock when I bought the house. If they got it local then it's from northern Colorado. I was able to take a picture of the cell structure so I think that might help? Thank you any help is appreciated.- 7 replies
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Found this along a section of beach in Nova Scotia. It is oval in cross section and is cracked like this all the way around. Thoughts? IMG_6844.mov
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Okay, my boyfriend and I found this in Central Texas more specifically austin. At first we thought it was just some weird iron ball as it is heavy and feels just like metal. We were really confused and wanted to know more so we took a Dremel with a diamond cutting blade and tried to slice it open, it was extremely difficult to cut almost like we were cutting metal and we did not get very far maybe a quarter of an inch deep. I left it outside for a while for a couple months and we just kind of forgot about it until today we picked it up I asked him what he really thought it was and he said a piece of a metal decoration that somebody had outside and I was like nah but whatever and just dropped it onto my concrete steps at that point it hit at just the right way and cracked open into these pieces and as you can see the inside is obviously a nut of some sort it's hard as rock through and through the nut is just as hard as the outside and we instantly thought it was a petrified tree nut! Does anyone have any idea at all what this is?! Austin is known for having petrified wood and nuts of sorts so it could be. I don't know what are y'all's thoughts. Also the light green is just from the marker where we marked where we wanted to slice it. Also as.you can see the outside is lumpy almost like a walnut but the inside is obviously not a walnut and walnuts outer shells are actually lumpy in a different way if that makes sense. And it was perfectly round when together as one piece.
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Hi Gang, Just joined the forum and as a rookie in the fossil world I wanted to see if these two rocks were something or nothing. I love rockhounding for gems and minerals and have done so for well over a decade, been to MANY cool pegmatites, mines, occurances, etc... even a few commercial quarrys which allowed public visits on one certain day. But my time spent in sedementary rocks is VERY limited so I don't know if I found a keeper, or a leverite. (leverite - as in, "leave her right there, its just a rock"). I have found a few obvious keepers, a few ferns, various sea creatures, and even a pair of lovely trilobytes, but those were obvious and when I found them, I knew exactly what I had. These two rocks are well... a mystery to me. If a kind soul could help me out I'd be mighty thankful. Specimen one is almost certainly sandstone, and it has tree-branch looking segments that I took to be just that, some form of vegetation. Like the shaft of a cattail or branches of some prehistoric tree. Specimen two is also likely sandstone, it has abundant small pyrite and mica flecks as local sandstones tend to have, and comes from a local roadcut they just cut (which I couldn't help but explore looking for ironstone concretions which locally can hold a variety of rare wurtzite polymorph). It has several "blebs" of dark matter and the one in the center of the frame looked "biological" to me as opposed to just an ovoid rock. It also has an odd speckled texture, almost reminiscent of some sea-bug or critter. Though I sure wouldn't be one to know. Anyone got an idea what these are?
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Found this in a large creek bed in Dolly Sods WV in the mountains. 8-12 pound stone or so, made a good hiking companion lol. Anyway, looks like it could be an imprint of an extinct tree or a garfish or something but it doesn’t make sense to me that the lines are impressed and the diamond formations are raised, which would make me thing some type of tree or something. Thoughts??
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I've been trying for a few years to find out what this is. Found it in Flagstaff AZ. It's feels heavy like a rock, has a core that looks like bone marrow. Outside is fuzzy, bumpy looking/feeling but like rock & one outside corner looks burnt. Thanks!
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Found this at my local river near Manchester in the UK close to a recent landslide, it looks like a tree bark or something to me and is a foot long. Any help to identify and date would be appreciated.
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Found this larger chunk of rock (too hard to be modern charcoal) while sifting for microfossils. It has a metallic look to it and is fairly brittle. It was found on bradford beach on Lake Michigan and was likely eroded out of the mid Devonian Milwaukee formation which is known for its coalified trees and giant fungi. this looks like a lot of coalified wood I’ve seen pictures of, but I’m pretty new when it comes to plant fossils so this might just be mineral. Thanks!
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Are these fossils? And if so, what of? Found under Seacliff Bridge in New South Wales
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Hi everyone! I'm new to fossil hunting and I found a few interesting rocks underneath Sea Cliff Bridge near Wollongong in Australia. There was a lot of coal in the area for context. I will attach some photos of the rocks I found, I'm particularly interested in the small white (quartz??) lines intersecting the black part of the stone. Any help would be hugely appreciated! Thanks -
Found this oddly marked piece in Big Brook sticking out of the marl. The striations and pockmarks on it had me intrigued. Looks like maybe a tree or piece of wood or something. It broke and inside it has a striated texture as well as kind of marly. Anyone think it could be something fossilized?
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Not sure if this is the right spot for this topic. Found this over the summer here in Iron Co. Missouri while at the creek. Pretty sure it's a chunk of petrified wood. Just wanted to ask you all & make sure. Sorry again, it's 5"x1"x1"
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Trying to find out what this is. Found in the Northern Nevada desert. It looks like a round tree trunk 10 inches across. Half of the outer surface is somewhat smooth and the other half has a stepped pattern that reminds me of how some plants grow stems upwards. The pic that shows this section maybe upside down. The photographer and I aren't sure whats up or down. The texture is like glass, we think its opalized? Very sharp edges and smooth. It's brittle. The color is brown on outside with white calcium patches. Inner area is a solid carmel color with tint of green, there are no flashes of rainbow colors or clear crystals. There are no other patterns, dots, striations, or wood like grain. It was found among volcanic and igneous rock field. Searched for more similar but none found on surface.
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Hi- this is such a large piece and it looks like tree bark or wood , but it’s a rock. Could it be petrified wood or plant root? ( I keep finding small pieces like this as well.) Found in N central Ohio, river. If the location wasn’t known would you think it may be one of those ? Just curious. I guess I’m asking what to look for because I drag tooooo many “ rocks” home, Thanks again for all help .
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Hi all, I'm new to this forum and wondering if you could all help me out. I found this fossil on the Thames foreshore in London at low tide. I would love to know what it came from! My only thought is that one side looks like rings of a tree and 2 other sides look a bit like bark. Would be very grateful for any help! Thanks
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Hi everyone. I recently visited a quarry at the north of Spain (more specifically a geographical area called "El Bierzo", famous for its fossils from the carboniferous era) and I found the following ones. I think I have identified most of them but I would like to know your opinion. Thank you very much!
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These were found east of Burns, Oregon in a road cut. I thought maybe redwood but the structure is vertical not horizontal. Can anyone tell me the name of my little guys? Thanks! Nyla