Large compressed fossil wood in Upper Carboniferous Brownsville PA

[NickG]

I am currently traveling up north toward NE Ohio. On the way up while driving on US-40, I stopped off at sizable outcrops of the Monongahela Group just NW of Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. In fallen blocks of sandstone, I came across these compressed fossilized wood.

 

 

7.1 mm between lines on the paper. Stupidly I forgot to grab my scale bar from my truck.

 

 

I also stopped by Washington PA to check out the outcrops reported behind the Walmart and Sam’s Club on Trinity Point Drive. It appears these have become very badly eroded and overgrown. Maybe there’s a trick here or some better options to find fossiliferous material here but I couldn’t work it out.