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Petrified wood


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I am not entirely sure where petrified wood fits in the fossil domain, but here is a sampling of some thin sections I made from a sample from the Rock Shed.(http://therockshed.com).

The sample was cut in four slices, two cross sections and two transverse sections. One of the cross section slides broke into several pieces when I used too much force removing it from the polishing holder.

The petrified wood is not very birefringent so the photos were taken with Plane Polarized light.

A presentation showing more images may be viewed at post-18968-0-01770100-1462319677.jpg

The wood fossil is from The Rock Shed

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Photos 3 and 4 are full size, approx. 26mm, scans of the transverse thin sections.

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Photo 5 is a full size, approx. 12mm, scan of a cross section.

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Photo 6 at 25x of a transverse section.

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Your work is terribly interesting, and I thank you for posting here and opening our eyes :goodjob:

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Are you looking for an ID? Do you know where and what formation the wood came from? I see the tag says that it is over 150 million years old. That could mean that it came from the 225 million year old Chinle Fm. in northern Arizona near the Petrified Forrest.

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