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petrified wood?


Quitter

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I know this couldn't be the counter in front of me, but it looks almost like it.

The dark pieces are very likely fossil wood. One would need a closer look at the texture to be certain however. It would be partially mineralized lignite.

The dalmation stone looks like a bio-eroded oyster. The dark spots being bore holes in the shell.

The mineral is a concretion. They often contain fossils, but not always.

The smooth rocks from black to tan look like rocks to me. ' not sure the names.

Is that label gabro ? It could be a darker grade of it, but that is a plutonic rock type that usually has a greater percentage of quartz in it.

The triangular shaped one labeled fossil needs a better look, but I don't recognize it as a fossil as is.

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Thank you, didn’t mean to get the extra rocks in the photo. The wood seems like almost solid quartzite

 like. Very new to this hobby

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1 hour ago, Quitter said:

like almost solid quartzite

Some is quite hard. The texture is what indicates wood. It should have the fiberous look that modern wood has. Some is more layered looking, some a bit less.

Sometimes it grades into a coal like look, but without that texture it is difficult to be certain.

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