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Petrified wood on chert

Don in MO

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Don in MO

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Could this be petrified wood attached to chert/flint?

AAA batteries for scale.

Size--3" length   1 1/2 "height    1 3/8" thickness

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That is a typical surface structure for some cryptocrystalline quartz. (agate, chert, flint....)

I do not see petrified wood here, I see a piece of jasper (yellow agate).

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