cindybriggs
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Post by cindybriggs on Jan 3, 2011 11:38:22 GMT -5
:help: I thought petrified wood was petrified wood, but I've since learned that there are many kinds of petrified wood. You have petrified bog wood (?), petrified palm wood, petrified root wood, etc. etc. So does anyone know how many different kinds of petrified wood there is?
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blarneystone
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Post by blarneystone on Jan 3, 2011 11:50:40 GMT -5
Probably as many kinds as there are different kinds of trees...
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 3, 2011 12:07:47 GMT -5
This is a question which is impossible to answer. Every time someone thinks they know all of the different types of pet wood, along comes another one. It turns up all over the globe. Sometimes from remote regions.
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cindybriggs
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Post by cindybriggs on Jan 3, 2011 12:29:31 GMT -5
Ah. well, that answers that. Thanks.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 3, 2011 13:34:32 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Jack, lapidaryrough on Jan 3, 2011 14:18:06 GMT -5
and the petrified Woody
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 3, 2011 17:12:28 GMT -5
*LOL* Many more kinds than there are numbers of trees today because you're dealing with a few hundred million years of trees, ferns, shrubs etc that could be fossilized. Most the types you find are not even identified. I think the best collection of identified pet wood I've seen was up in Washington at a petrified forest museum where they had a fantastic collection of polished slabs. Many of them were tropical wood types too. I sure wish someone would do a good pet wood ID book but most the volumes on the subject are more pretty picture books than ID guides.....Mel
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Post by drjo on Jan 3, 2011 19:20:11 GMT -5
Your supposed to see a doctor after 4 hours ;D
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Jan 5, 2011 13:30:39 GMT -5
LOL Dr. Joe!
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Post by goldfinger1 on Jan 7, 2011 7:16:04 GMT -5
I sure wish someone would do a good pet wood ID book but most the volumes on the subject are more pretty picture books than ID guides.....Mel Bob and Dan Beck of Mt Hood ,Oregon were two very prominent petrified wood dealers back in the 80's and 90's. I think the son, Dan, still does business in it. Anyway- there is a book called "Modern Wood Technology" which they used to identify the species. It's not really a book for rockhounds but it does show pictures of grain and cellular structure. This was their "bible". It applied to the common every day species like maple , oak, sycamore, elm, birch ,etc and not the extinct ones. Steve
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 7, 2011 10:19:32 GMT -5
Steve; I had encountered that book in an Amazon search for pet wood books. Thought it might be of some help but wasn't sure. I'll have to give it another look.....Mel
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Post by goldfinger1 on Jan 7, 2011 11:24:00 GMT -5
Mel-
I have not seen the book and only heard of it. See if you can look at a few pages before deciding to buy it. While it is a "bible" of pet wood dealers, it may take a little while to figure how it best utilize it.
Steve
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Post by Roan on Jan 7, 2011 19:03:29 GMT -5
Your supposed to see a doctor after 4 hours ;D LIKE!
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Post by deb193redux on Jan 8, 2011 1:46:26 GMT -5
The book Petrified Forests covers the topic pretty well.
IMHO, the stuff from Texas, except for palmwood, is kind og plain and brown compared to the variety in the pacific northwest.
it is not only the variety of tree species and parts that got fossilized, but also whether it is mor jasper or agate or opalite, and what color the trace mineral impart, and whether it is a replacement or a casting ... etc
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 8, 2011 9:47:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I kind of agree with you on that Daniel. Most the Texas wood is kind of plain. There are some very pretty color combinations from Live Oak County and the Rio Grande area though. You get into lots of reds and golds mixed with the dark colors in that stuff and the specimens are well agatized too. I've always thought the best colors in pet wood were from the Chinle and Morrison Formation stuff from Arizona and Utah. The are some pretty varieties in the Pacific NW but a lot of the wood from there is just plain earth tones too. Best wood grain replacement is from the NW though....Mel
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cindybriggs
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Post by cindybriggs on Jan 8, 2011 10:32:01 GMT -5
Luckily I work in Live Oak County Texas. I've found lots of agatized wood. I've also found what is called opalized wood.
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