Miocene_Mason Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 I found this yesterday at Matoaka, looks like wood but it is preserved (or dare I say petrified) in iron. Is it wood or geological? Has anyone found something like this at the cliffs before? 2.1 inches height, 2.2 length “...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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 Not seeing wood here, but pictures of the ends may change that opinion. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 Below are pictures of a large petrified wood piece from the Miocene of Virginia for comparison. I find lots of small pieces of wood preserved in the Pleistocene bog iron of Virginia that look very similar to your specimen. But it is always difficult to tell for sure from pictures. Edit: I should be able to take a few pictures of the bog iron wood within a day or so. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 On 7/19/2018 at 10:03 AM, ynot said: Not seeing wood here, but pictures of the ends may change that opinion. It’s hard to get a good picture of it, somehow looks more wood like in real life. I’ll get a end pic for ya soon. “...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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share Posted July 20, 2018 3 hours ago, MarcoSr said: Below are pictures of a large petrified wood piece from the Miocene of Virginia for comparison. I find lots of small pieces of wood preserved in the Pleistocene bog iron of Virginia that look very similar to your specimen. But it is always difficult to tell for sure from pictures. That material looks like some of the small pieces of jet I’ve found. I am used to finding lignite from the Miocene, but have never seen it in iron (assuming it’s from the Miocene). I have seen similar in the Cretaceous but of course that never exposes on the cliffs. Thanks for the photos! “...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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 As promised, pictures of three pieces of petrified wood in bog iron from the Pleistocene of Virginia to compare your specimen to. I had larger pieces that better showed the wood grain patterns and rings but I donated them. I have probably a hundred or so smaller pieces. End view of the top two specimens in the above pictures: Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Looks a lot like a piece of driftwood that's seen better days to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 On 7/20/2018 at 10:40 AM, WhodamanHD said: It’s hard to get a good picture of it, somehow looks more wood like in real life. I’ll get a end pic for ya soon. Here @ynot, doesn’t show much. On 7/20/2018 at 9:26 PM, MarcoSr said: As promised, pictures of three pieces of petrified wood in bog iron from the Pleistocene of Virginia to compare your specimen to. I had larger pieces that better showed the wood grain patterns and rings but I donated them. I have probably a hundred or so smaller pieces. Thank you! Looks similar, though it’s in a finer grained rock. I don’t know what age mine would be, either Miocene or some overlying unit. “...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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Does not look like wood to Me, I stick with an iron concretion. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockwood Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 1 hour ago, ynot said: Does not look like wood to Me, I stick with an iron concretion. Agreed. Maybe more of a slicken side sort of thing to some extent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcoSr Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Seeing the end view of your specimen, I now think it is an iron concretion. You can see the wood in the end view of my specimens and a little of the bog iron. I can only see the iron in the end view of your specimen. Marco Sr. "Any day that you can fossil hunt is a great day." My family fossil website Some Of My Shark, Ray, Fish And Other Micros My Extant Shark Jaw Collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Posted on the wrong thread. Please ignore. Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 It reminds me of Palmoxylon, but I'm not sure on the ID. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocentx Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 What I did with my pyrite replaced wood was expose the grain of the ends by using a rough file and finishing with some finer files. That told the tale. "Journey through a universe ablaze with changes" Phil Ochs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plax Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 this looks like an impression of wood in bog iron with perhaps some adhering. I have some like that from the Deep Cut at C&D. Could have been a lignified piece with lots of cavities that were infiltrated with the iron. Haven't seen any straight up bog iron with that ribbed look but ya'll have no doubt seen more of it than I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 I tried to compare it with the specimen from here . " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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