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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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From the album: MY SE MISSOURI FINDS
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I found this piece of late Cretaceous petrified wood in the Dawson formation of Colorado. Most of the piece however is this grey ash colored rock and I was just wondering, 1. What type of rock is it? I’m willing to do tests such as scratch and hardness if it will help. 2. How was it formed? 3. When was it formed? Did it form during fossilization or much more recently? Thanks for any and all help.
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Hello, As I'm not super familiar with petrified wood structures, I'm questioning if this is indeed a vertebrae creature that petrified along with the wood or just a a normal structure. It's little if so. Found either along the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis, MO or in a ravine surrounded by steep hills in the St. Louis County Suburb region. From what I read, Missouri Petrified Wood is from the Cretaceous Period. Any help if it is something and also maybe type of wood/tree? More images at: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qmZ7dtN5pPt75CSa7 Thank you!
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Carboniferous wood with crystals for trade
Svetlana posted a topic in Member-to-Member Fossil Trades
Hello. I offer for trade fragments of petrified wood of the Carboniferous period with crystals of smoky quartz. Some samples are in the photographs (I did not upload all the samples I have, since there are quite a few of them - of different sizes and qualities, as well as the sizes of the crystals themselves. I think we can agree on what specifically interests you - I have no doubt that I will find the sample you need). The origin of this wood is Ukraine, its age is Carbon. I'm interested in marine reptiles and petrified wood. Thank you. Have a nice day
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A career in the military (38 yrs, USMC) has given us repeated exposure as we travel and move, to the mind-boggling beauty of Nature's creations. We especially seek out stromatolite specimens, petrified wood varieties and anything guaranteed to spark conversation when shared with friends and visitors. While we still find excitement in wandering through the outdoors, we also find rewards in visiting rock, fossil and mineral shows where the vendors themselves offer education and conversation that deepens our appreciation of their wares. Really pleased to be able to take advantage of this group's experience and expertise.
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Hi everyone. I've lived in the Willamette Valley all my life. Been a rockhound all my life love fossils, rocks and anything geology! I LOVE petrified wood and Amber.. I love finding the imprint of leaves on rock but I don't know what this is all called.. I am not sure what ANY of my finds are called. All my life when my family and friends and I would go camping or on outdoor events when the rest of the crowd was socializing or swimming in the creeks and rivers, I would be digging around some hillside scratching away for rocks and fossils.. I don't even keep them all. Or I'd be overtaken. Well, I give most of them away to kids, hoping it will spark an interest in something more than video games and Facebook. I'm not educated and I don't hunt for so much as I just come across interesting things. But I would like to know of some interesting places to go to find fossils and the like. Or Amber. And I AM curious about their nature and as I said I have no formal education on these things so I thought it might be interesting to find out what some of these things are or if their fossils at all. Thank you.
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I recently purchased a "Pay Dirt" box from forum member MikeG @Bone Daddy's site for a little something to do. In it was this piece of wood. Originally it was a very dark brown, almost black color (imagine that from Peace River). Anyway, I went over the front of it lightly with a 600 grit sanding cloth & the color lightened up nicely. Filed & polished a bit of the upper end & found that it may not be regular wood. Measures 7 cm long by 2.5 cm at it's widest. First 2 pics are the front & back. Pics 3, 4 & 5 are the polished bit at 60x, 75x & 100x respectively. Not used to seeing round in pet wood, so I thought I'd see if this is possibly palmoxylon instead.
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My Petrified Wood from the Dawson Formation of Colorado
Top Trilo posted a topic in Member Collections
In Colorado there is a formation called the Dawson Formation also known as the Dawson Arkose Formation. The most common fossil by far is petrified wood and although I haven’t found any vertebrate fossils from dinosaurs and mammals have been found. It covers a relatively large time span from late Cretaceous to early Eocene, about 70-54 million years old. A member that has also found fossils in this formation, Blake @FossilDudeCO. Although it has been over three years since he was on his posts have still helped. He said that further south is Eocene but higher north in Parker and Aurora is Cretaceous and from the cinnamon tree family. That’s all the basic info, now it’s time for the pictures. The next four are wet to show the color a bit better. The next three are polished via rock tumbler. The next image sparkles like sunlight on snow but you can’t really tell with a picture. While most are brown and black there are hints of color everywhere. Red, and clearly wet. Orange Yellow is mixed in a lot of them with a lot of it being a yellow brown or yellow white color. This is the only rock I have found with green in it. Very strange if anyone knows what any of these minerals are I would love to know. Blueish Purple grey Ill take pictures of more purple ones shortly. Here are just more pictures, Enjoy The largest piece, the first image, is my favorite and largest find being 8.1 pounds (3.7 kilograms). FossilDudeCO said in a topic, "It is thought that the trees fell into standing water and began to deteriorate that is why we don't see lovely rings or any more definition to the wood, rather just strange mashed up chunks and bright colors!" Which I am perfectly fine with. In case you didn't read between the pictures, if anyone knows what any of these minerals are I would love to know.
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i was out hunting white river fossils on a paid ranch near chadron nebraska. found an area with occasional typical mammal and turtle fossils but also large amounts of these layered agatized rocks that I hope are petrified wood. also found were occasional yellow brown translucent "melted wax" pieces that I was told was derived from sap. I thought this is great and brought enough home and now I wonder is it petrified wood or if it purely geological. Please take a look and tell me what you see. there are other areas of badlands within her ranch that have clearly agatized mammal bones, and other areas with purely geological layers of agate and crystal.
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I have a decent collection of petrified wood I've found here in Utah mainly Triassic Chinle, Jurassic Morrison, and Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formations. This one has me a little stumped though and I am mainly looking to see if anyone has seen something similar to this. I'm about 80% sure it's jasperized petrified wood. Possibly an old rotting log. This was found near Park City, Utah in Keetley volcanic strata. The locality is not from the ash deposits that produced the nice Silver Creek Junction petrified wood (now extinct under commercial developments) but more likely from the violent lahar deposits that came later. No scraps of petrified wood were found. Just this. More info here. ANCIENT VOLCANOES OF THE CENTRAL WASATCH RANGE
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Hi everyone! Recently I bought this piece of blue petrified wood. In the process of cleaning, I have soak the whole piece in muriatic acid for about a day and half, and in water with baking soda for about 2 days to neutralize the acid. To my surprise the whole skin turn white and the dark blue part has turned much pale in color. I have attached a few photos below for your reference, please noted that when the whole piece is dry the white part is complete white and opaque, but when I added water, the white part became translucent. I am not sure if I have somehow damage it, or if I need to do more to remove this 'white skin'. I would appreciate anyone's advice on what is this white stuff, why adding water would change the opacity and what I should do next. Thank you. These are the photos when I first bought the petrified wood, note only the top part was cut and polished, no treatment done as yet This is after soaking in the muriatic acid for about a day and half, and in water with baking soda for 2 more days, the whole piece turned white, even the polished side change from dark blue to pale white brown color. This is after adding water, you can see the polish part has turn darker brow and the white part became translucent.
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Hello. I want to show you some examples from my collection. This is a Carboniferous wood. The preservation is not the best, but for me these samples are interesting for the presence of crystals of smoky and ordinary quartz on them. A sliver that has broken off from a larger fragment. There is more quartz than wood Perhaps a stem or stump - it is almost round in cross section. And thickly overgrown with crystals. Large flattened fragment; perhaps the first sliver was from it.
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