inyo
noticing nice landscape pebbles
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Post by inyo on Jun 27, 2018 23:22:21 GMT -5
The Estate Sale Myrle Kirk, 95 year old former member of my club, continued this weekend. I headed over there to see if there was additional petrified wood I could snag. They had lowered the price so I loaded up and 100 lbs of various materials. Here's the highlights starting with the petrified wood: Saturday I bought the first box of this stuff, and i bought the rest today. I have heard a story of how one rockhounding family would drop off their mother in a specific area near Mule Canyon outside Barstow. She was there to do one thing: sift through the dirt for petrified palm tree rootlets. They then sold them to Greiger's in Pasadena (I know a few of you know this reference). I am thinking that this material might be the same stuff, but it's pure guesswork. Here is a closeup of one of the pieces.  
Not from "near Mule Canyon outside Barstow." I recognize the paleobotanical material. It's all from Last Chance Canyon--now part of Red Rock Canyon State Park, California (northwestern Mojave Desert, between the communities of Mojave and Ridgecrest)--from the late middle Miocene Dove Spring Formation of the Ricardo Group, roughly 10 million years old.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 27, 2018 23:56:19 GMT -5
The Estate Sale Myrle Kirk, 95 year old former member of my club, continued this weekend. I headed over there to see if there was additional petrified wood I could snag. They had lowered the price so I loaded up and 100 lbs of various materials. Here's the highlights starting with the petrified wood: Saturday I bought the first box of this stuff, and i bought the rest today. I have heard a story of how one rockhounding family would drop off their mother in a specific area near Mule Canyon outside Barstow. She was there to do one thing: sift through the dirt for petrified palm tree rootlets. They then sold them to Greiger's in Pasadena (I know a few of you know this reference). I am thinking that this material might be the same stuff, but it's pure guesswork. Here is a closeup of one of the pieces.
Not from "near Mule Canyon outside Barstow." I recognize the paleobotanical material. It's all from Last Chance Canyon--now part of Red Rock Canyon State Park, California (northwestern Mojave Desert, between the communities of Mojave and Ridgecrest)--from the late middle Miocene Ricardo Formation, roughly 10 million years old.
Links To All Of My Fossil Pages On The Net (music, too) Agreed! Although nowhere near as nice as that pictured, I collected a little of the petrified palm tree rootlets the one time we visited the Last Chance Canyon area (long before it became off limits). Living in SoCal (since 1957  ) I am also very much aware of Greiger's in Pasadena. What a place to buy rocks and supplies! For whatever time period Photobucket is going to graciously allow third party photos to be visible, now is a good time to go back and revisit some of the older informational postings with PB hosted photos. |
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Post by Peruano on Jun 28, 2018 8:03:01 GMT -5
Just a reminder, you can save those photos by doing a right click and choosing save as. Just another way of getting them back from PB's hostage status.
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) I am also very much aware of Greiger's in Pasadena. What a place to buy rocks and supplies!
