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Post by tandl on Oct 19, 2010 13:19:06 GMT -5
Fern wood slab ,from a find this summer. 5 1/2" x 4" x 5/16" One off another . 7" x 4 1/2" x 1/4" Here is the polished specimen that the second slab is from , 5.9 lbs
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rons
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Post by rons on Oct 19, 2010 13:25:01 GMT -5
Nice piece..make a nice display or cabs if your so inclined
Ron
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papat
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Post by papat on Oct 19, 2010 13:33:16 GMT -5
Ted that great piece
Tim
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Post by jakesrocks on Oct 19, 2010 13:34:21 GMT -5
That's a definite keeper. Beautiful piece of material.
Don
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Oct 19, 2010 13:37:01 GMT -5
Whoa!!!!!!!!! That is a beauty!!!!! How big is it?
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Post by tanyafrench on Oct 19, 2010 14:09:56 GMT -5
That is an awesome slab, the whole thing is beautiful and I can see it displayed in a living room or something. Gorgeous wood.
Tanya
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Post by susand24224 on Oct 19, 2010 23:28:24 GMT -5
I don't remember seeing anything like that before. It has it all--pattern, color, fossil interest. What a great piece!
Susan
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Oct 20, 2010 8:06:36 GMT -5
In a word, WOW!
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Oct 20, 2010 9:21:28 GMT -5
Nice! that one will cut some really nice cabs
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Post by gr on Oct 21, 2010 8:05:53 GMT -5
tandl, that is some amazing material, I had never heard of, or seen it before now. thanks for sharing it! Gary
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Post by frane on Oct 21, 2010 8:10:23 GMT -5
Beautiful wood! What a great pattern to it! Fran
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Post by tandl on Oct 21, 2010 12:54:16 GMT -5
This is wood of (psaronius fern ) . The leaf fossils of the same tree are called a different name ( pecopteris ) . Pecopteris leaves are found at Mazon Creek . You all may be familiar with . It is old coal mines just south and west of chicago . I have never been there . I live about eighty miles south of there , and is where this wood is found . This "petrified" wood is not found at Mazon . Don`t be fooled by sellers selling "petrified logs" form Mazon creek , thinking you will get this internal preservation ,they are cast fossils . This wood has supposedly been found in Ohio , I do know, it is found in Germany . If you would like some of this wood , I sell it on ebay (rockandshoal ) . It is very rare to find , and do not expect to ever have much of it . The two slabs on ebay are excellent quality , no fractures , and large for this type of wood ever found .
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Post by rockrookie on Oct 22, 2010 21:04:49 GMT -5
Beautiful material !! --paul
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stoneviews
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Post by stoneviews on Oct 24, 2010 9:11:06 GMT -5
Thats some cool looking stuff!!!
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altarocker
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Post by altarocker on Oct 24, 2010 14:11:03 GMT -5
Wished we had wood like that here.
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Post by beefjello on Oct 24, 2010 15:29:39 GMT -5
Super find!!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 24, 2010 15:48:33 GMT -5
Very cool specimens! I only have a few fern slabs in my collection and mine are all either Tempskya or Teitia sp. Yours is a totally new one for me and until I looked at it closer I thought it was palm root but the margin of the slab does look a lot like my fern examples. Now I'm going to have to look again at a piece I cut from here in Texas which actually looks a bit more like your fern than the palm I thought it was. So was it found in Illinois or were you hunting in some other area?....Mel
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Post by Donnie's Rocky Treasures on Oct 24, 2010 17:28:14 GMT -5
He found it in Illinois!
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