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Petrified Wood Find

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I found this nice petrified wood specimen while collecting in the early Cretaceous Potomac Group sediments in Washington DC recently. It is pretty well preserved for this unit, with nice surface features, knots, and growth lines present on it. 

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Miocene_Mason Regular Member

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Very nice! 

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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Thanks so much :D 

 

Hopefully there are more like it out there. There are still some more places to explore at the exposure. 

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Looks like a piece of wood that would fly out when I chop a log with a hatchet at boy scout camp! Looks like it was chopped yesterday! :plant:

Every single fossil you see is a miracle set in stone, and should be treated as such.

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