Roger
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Post by Roger on Nov 19, 2013 20:15:49 GMT -5
I bought a slab of this from someone who said it is petrified wood. I haven't seen any pet wood that looked like this before, but I am new enough that it isn't surprising lol. I cabbed this from one of the larger pieces left when i cut the slab into more manageable sizes. I really love the colors in it.
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Deb/nyllynn
spending too much on rocks
Deb & Jim
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Post by Deb/nyllynn on Nov 19, 2013 21:31:19 GMT -5
Wow, really pretty. Love the shape as well... Deb
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Post by catmandewe on Nov 19, 2013 21:53:07 GMT -5
Looks like wood from Wagontown right outside of Silver City in Idaho. You can often find fossils inside of it too.
Tony
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LarryS
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SoCal desert rats
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Post by LarryS on Nov 19, 2013 22:07:01 GMT -5
How about Royal Sahara Jasper? That's cool stuff.
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Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 19, 2013 22:15:15 GMT -5
We call that "shrinkwood" here in Texas. Lots of it down around George West. It's basically pet wood that's been fractured and resealed with silica. Sometimes the fractures are very hexagonal in which case it's called "hexagonally fractured petrified wood". One dealer sells it as something like "midnight lace wood" or some such name. Here's a pair of typical slabs but it comes in lots of red shades too. I suspect such shrinkwood is found to some extent in a lot of wood areas but it seems to be more abundant down here. Shrinkwood is one of my latest crazes and I go down and hunt it every year. Love to cut them open and take pics of them so I have a ton of pics of the stuff. We even have a lot of palm shrinkwood ...Mel
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Roger
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Post by Roger on Nov 19, 2013 22:29:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the information Mel! I am 2.5 hours from George West. Are there good. public places to hunt? I would sure like to get some more of it. Your two slabs are beautiful.
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Post by pghram on Nov 19, 2013 23:01:17 GMT -5
Great shape on a beautiful cab.
Rich
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 19, 2013 23:02:25 GMT -5
The search area is within a triangle drawn by connecting Simmons City, George West, and Three Rivers. You hunt the roadsides and bar ditches along the road. Water erosion and the road graders turn up the wood. The whole area used to be gravel roads literally paved with pet wood, agate, chert and jasper of all types. Last year it was much harder to find good road sections as all the oilfield development down that way has led to many of the roads being resurfaced with caliche which of course covers up the wood. We found our favorite road covered up last spring and another favorite with only a small section of gravel. it is amazing though, we found one short section of original road maybe half a mile long where we found a lot of wood including a big hunk of red palm fiber. It's just a matter of doing a lot of driving and looking for exposed dark looking cobble filled quarry gravel. There are literally hundreds of miles of unpaved roads all down through there.....Mel
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Post by beefjello on Nov 21, 2013 19:47:15 GMT -5
Nice job, definitely pet wood. Love the shape and shine!
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Post by roy on Nov 21, 2013 23:27:33 GMT -5
nice shape and shine on the wood cab!
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