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Post by Bluesky78987 on Apr 10, 2017 15:26:17 GMT -5
Reading that petrified wood thread got me all worked up. Are there any places in Southern California where one can find pet wood fairly reliably? I have the books, but it's hard to tell from the books what the actual chance of success is.
Other than that really great hounding location known as "Quartzsite" lol.
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Post by aDave on Apr 10, 2017 16:50:40 GMT -5
Reading that petrified wood thread got me all worked up. Are there any places in Southern California where one can find pet wood fairly reliably? I have the books, but it's hard to tell from the books what the actual chance of success is. Other than that really great hounding location known as "Quartzsite" lol. I am glad you asked. I was wondering that myself. Dave
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Post by <'))))>< Fish on Apr 10, 2017 17:44:58 GMT -5
I have found lots of wood in the south Cady
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Post by lookatthat on May 16, 2017 10:51:52 GMT -5
Not exactly southern CA, but the pay site at the Ernst Quarry (near Bakersfield) turns out some impressive shark teeth on occasion. Sometimes big megs and makos... sometimes marine mammal teeth and fossils. If you're into micros you can find some basking shark, angel shark, and dogfish shark teeth.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 16, 2017 17:19:52 GMT -5
Both the Mojave Desert and the Colorado have lots of petrified palm root locations and some regular pet wood is found in association with the palm. I've found wood at Yermo up behind the dump off Mineaola RD, the Cadys, Sperry wash and along the Colorado River terraces. The wife and I found enough big hunks of wood just east of California City one time to use it for yard landscaping. Good wood but hard to find around Boron. Calcified wood in some places in Ventura County mainly just south of Camarillo by cemetary and up south of Cuyama Valley. Some wood even on the beaches at the Ventura Rivermouth but very rare. Wood up in Geyserville area of northern CA. Good wood around Tule Lake in extreme NE CA. really pretty stuff there that the Amerinds used for points.
Fossils are all over the place in the interior coast ranges but the oil fields and ranches around Coalinga have lots of kinds of shells and shark teeth ( giant freaking oysters. Two filled my entire pack) and the canyons around Parkfield are really good as are the mountains north of Ojai along Hwy 33. Sand Flat has huge sand dollar fossils. All the central valley and interior coast range sites are full of Valley fever though. I always hunted winter only while there was no dust.Mel
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Post by Bluesky78987 on May 17, 2017 9:00:30 GMT -5
Wow Sabre52 Mel that's a lotta useful info, thanks!
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Post by Bluesky78987 on May 17, 2017 9:01:32 GMT -5
Not exactly southern CA, but the pay site at the Ernst Quarry (near Bakersfield) turns out some impressive shark teeth on occasion. Sometimes big megs and makos... sometimes marine mammal teeth and fossils. If you're into micros you can find some basking shark, angel shark, and dogfish shark teeth. Yeah, Ernst Quarry has been on my bucket list for awhile now. Maybe next winter when it cools off.
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Post by Sabre52 on May 17, 2017 16:37:57 GMT -5
Forgot too, all the rocky beach areas from the Fairgrounds and Ventura River mouth to Gaviota have fossils, Stone Canyon type jasper and agatized whalebone if freaking Commieforna has not come up with some new law prohibiting collecting the bone. Collecting is winter work when the storm drift sucks the sand off the beaches. Rocky beaches south of Pt. Mugu towards Malibu have fine coquina in back and white..Mel
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Post by jakesrocks on May 17, 2017 19:28:30 GMT -5
Try the Blue Hills on the east end of the Calico Mts. for pet palm. Not real colorful or plentiful, but nice solid material.
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