Post by paulshiroma on Nov 28, 2011 23:22:14 GMT -5
Andrew and I have slowly been picking through the materials we found from the last two trips and uncovered a few items of interest. We drove over to see Walt Lombardo over at Nevada Mineral and Book up in Tustin for an opinion.
Field Siding - Petrified Wood (Maybe):
Top:
End:
Side:
Side:
Top (again):
Green Ash Hills (Yermo):
Petrified Palm?
Side A:
Side B:
End View:
This one's sort of hard to describe. See the dark purple-ish/black circular areas on the rock? Walt thinks they're agatized twigs. A few of you mentioned that you can find such in the area. At any rate, these little agatized areas form little "tubes" running through this rock. I have a larger rock that has these features as well.
Side. You can sort of see the "tube" of dark purple-ish agate running horizontally through the rock:
A nice agate that we'll slab later:
Anyway, several of you have been to this locale as well. Any help in confirming whether or not these pieces are petrified wood/palm/twigs would be appreciated. Walt was "reasonably" certain that these were petrified wood but admitted that it's sometimes pretty hard to tell, depending upon the level of replacement that occurred. While we were at his shop, he showed us some larger pieces of petrified palm which were pretty obviously petrified palm.
Thanks!
Paul
Field Siding - Petrified Wood (Maybe):
Top:
End:
Side:
Side:
Top (again):
Green Ash Hills (Yermo):
Petrified Palm?
Side A:
Side B:
End View:
This one's sort of hard to describe. See the dark purple-ish/black circular areas on the rock? Walt thinks they're agatized twigs. A few of you mentioned that you can find such in the area. At any rate, these little agatized areas form little "tubes" running through this rock. I have a larger rock that has these features as well.
Side. You can sort of see the "tube" of dark purple-ish agate running horizontally through the rock:
A nice agate that we'll slab later:
Anyway, several of you have been to this locale as well. Any help in confirming whether or not these pieces are petrified wood/palm/twigs would be appreciated. Walt was "reasonably" certain that these were petrified wood but admitted that it's sometimes pretty hard to tell, depending upon the level of replacement that occurred. While we were at his shop, he showed us some larger pieces of petrified palm which were pretty obviously petrified palm.
Thanks!
Paul
LOL. Talk about an attack of ADD!
