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Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 02:44:23 +0000

Cypress Wood, viewed under white light (top) and short-wave ultraviolet light (bottom) Miocene Odessa, Delaware

Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 02:44:21 +0000

Cypress Wood, viewed under white light (top) and short-wave ultraviolet light (bottom) Miocene Odessa, Delaware

Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 02:44:19 +0000

Cypress Wood, viewed under white light (top) and short-wave ultraviolet light (bottom) Miocene Odessa, Delaware

Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 02:44:18 +0000

Cypress Wood, viewed under white light (top) and short-wave ultraviolet light (bottom) Miocene Odessa, Delaware

Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 02:44:16 +0000

Cypress Wood, viewed under white light (top) and short-wave ultraviolet light (bottom) Miocene Odessa, Delaware

Fluorescent Silicified Cypress Wood

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 15:58:52 +0000

One of Delaware's many mysteries is the petrified wood found near Odessa and Smyrna. The general consensus is that is cypress wood of some kind and it was buried under Pleistocene sediments. However, the origin of the wood and the age have yet to be figured out. Some say Miocene. Others say as old as Cretaceous. There are no other co-occurring fossils in the deposit to give any clues.

The photo on the right was taken using a 395 nm UV lamp.

Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:29:29 +0000

Cypress Wood, viewed under short-wave ultraviolet light

Miocene

Odessa, Delaware

Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:29:28 +0000

Cypress Wood, viewed under short-wave ultraviolet light

Miocene

Odessa, Delaware

Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:29:28 +0000

Cypress Wood, viewed under short-wave ultraviolet light

Miocene

Odessa, Delaware

Fluorescent Petrified Wood

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:29:27 +0000

Cypress Wood, viewed under short-wave ultraviolet light

Miocene

Odessa, Delaware