Petrified Wood Piece With A Real Marijuana Leaf Fossilized

[MarcoSr]

It can be very difficult to tell from pictures, a lot of the time, fossils that are misidentified, completely fake, composites, restored etc.  This one is very easy to tell.  I'm always looking for petrified wood on-line from a couple of the large auction sites and came across this piece.  It made me laugh when I saw it, so I thought I would post it for other TFF members to enjoy.  If you can't see immediately the multiple problems with the piece description, based upon the below pictures (there were many more pictures in the post), do not buy fossils on-line.  At least the seller posted a good number of decent pictures from all angles, not the couple of blurry, grainy pictures that you normally would see for items like this.

 

EDIT:  Do not try a burn test on this piece to determine if it is a fossil or modern, unless you are burning it to heat your house. 

 

Item description:  Petrified Wood Piece With A Real Marijuana Leaf Fossilized

 

 

 

 

 

Marco Sr.

Edited January 21 by MarcoSr
Added burn test

[daves64]

It should fit the description in about another million years or so. Real good example of "planning ahead". lol

[MarcoSr]

6 hours ago, daves64 said:

It should fit the description in about another million years or so. Real good example of "planning ahead". lol

 

I was reading one of my petrified wood books, "Daniels Dayvault 2006 Ancient Forests A closer look at fossil wood", yesterday and came across the below section.  I was totally surprised to learn that wood that falls into a hot spring can be converted to silicified wood in a matter of a decade or less.

 

 

 

 

Marco Sr.

[jpc]

I have heard that the timbers in the gold mine in Lead, South Dakota are fossilized.  They were installed in the late 1800's, I believe.  There are enough minerals in the ground water there that the wood is now petrified.  I tried to get permission once to go look... denied, as it is a deep underground mine and they don't really let anyone in.  There is a piece of wood in the Natural History Museum in London from an ancient copper mine in Greece/Crete/Cypru?s that is permineralized with copper.  Not decades, but certainly very quick fossilization.  

 

Meanwhile, the wood with pot leaf.... a true gem for the weed-head in your life.

[Ezio Bonsignore]

"I was totally surprised to learn that wood that falls into a hot spring can be converted to silicified wood in a matter of a decade or less."

 

Even much, much shorter than that. Such things are normally produced at the Acque Albule ("Whitish Waters") thermal spa between Rome and Tivoli (in use since Roman times). I'm not sure how long a flower must remain submerged into the hot springs laden with hydrogen sulphide to be completely covered by a mineral coat (although arguably not completely mineralised), but it could hardly be more than 24h.

[Coco]

These are called petrifying fountains. Some put all kinds of objects to see them cover with limestone in a very short time.

 

That said, when you dip a branch in this type of place, the fact that it is covered with limestone (or scale etc...) does not mean that it is fossilized, in other words that its molecules are replaced by a mineral.

 

Coco

[JBkansas]

There's always lava fossils:

https://lovingthebigisland.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/hawaiis-amazing-lava-fossils/

 

This is a 10 year old "petrified" pandanas fruit:

Edited January 31 by JBkansas