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Post by woodman on Sept 27, 2015 11:58:55 GMT -5
Stinking Water, possibly boxwood. Most of my wood is from Oregon, so it isreal nice to see pictures of wood from around the country. Keep them coming.
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Post by woodman on Sept 27, 2015 19:48:09 GMT -5
A collection of limbs ,  
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Post by snowmom on Sept 28, 2015 7:15:07 GMT -5
(applause) droolworthy thread, watching with interest, such beauty all in one place. Thanks to all for the show... don't stop! (Roy- where are you?)
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 28, 2015 9:41:52 GMT -5
(applause) droolworthy thread, watching with interest, such beauty all in one place. Thanks to all for the show... don't stop! (Roy- where are you?) Roy has been sick...Should be back soon though.... |
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 28, 2015 10:21:12 GMT -5
By the way, that California cycad is a mind blower. Freaking awesome! I never even knew we had cycad age wood deposits in California. Thought all the wood was much more recent. Just to satisfy my curiosity, what area of the desert did that come from?....Mel Mel, I don't remember the exact location. I was just a kid, and my rockin mentor took me out to the location in his WWII surplus Dodge power wagon. I remember that it was a very rough ride in to the area. About all I can tell you is that it was in the high desert, I believe near the Nevada border. Last I heard, the whole area is now a protected area. Indian artifacts and rock drawings were also found in the same area. |
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 28, 2015 15:58:30 GMT -5
Don, Your memory seems pretty darn good. I got curious so I Googled an enlargeable geologic map of California to check for Mesozoic sedimentary deposits and sure enough, there are some deposits right on the Cal/Nev border west of Henderson and Las Vegas, Nevada. Jurassic or Triassic sediments from that geologic period would be where you'd find cycads all right. Very cool!.....Mel
PS: Man those exposures are really tiny and isolated ( I could find only a couple). Looks like just a single little valley or two. You'd have to know the desert out there like the palm of your hand to even find one of those sites. Makes your find incredibly rare indeed.
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 28, 2015 16:46:16 GMT -5
LOL. Mel, the guy I went out hounding with was already in his 60's, and I wasn't even a teen yet. He'd been hounding the deserts since the 40's at least. He & his old Dodge power wagon took me to places out there that I've never seen in any of the rockhound books. There were some interesting characters living near me when I was growing up. Guy next door had worked the borax mines in Death Valley. Even gave me a mule skinners whip that he had hanging in his garage. Old man across the street had worked on a project in Baja California. When he found out my Boy Scout troop was going down there for a 2 week camp out, He told us exactly where to look for a hot spring, and to be careful of the sting rays in the surf, and the rattlers. Most of the neighborhood was made up of old timers with knowledge of mining and such.
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Post by woodman on Sept 29, 2015 9:16:08 GMT -5
Small limb slab from Stinking Water. Looks like small buffalo or hedge hog to me.
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Post by Intheswamp on Sept 29, 2015 9:40:40 GMT -5
Small limb slab from Stinking Water. Looks like small buffalo or hedge hog to me. Wow, I'm a newbie but that IMPRESSES me!!!! Beautiful!!! But really, if you count the rings it's only 40 or 50 years old.<grin> |
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 29, 2015 10:04:07 GMT -5
As I stated earlier in another topic...I have had this petwood (47 pounder)with me for over 30 years-dragging it from house to house, state to state, when I moved! Finally I just headed to eastern Oregon and had Roy cut it up for me....Here is one of the slabs from the tree... Very unusual piece to say the least! If you look at it carefully, you see the bottom part of the core is missing. But wait, look up to the left corner, it's there.... Something happened to this tree before it was petrified and it broke and shifted that part of the log upward, than it stayed there after it petrified... Cool or what.....Has a bit of agate in it too.....I found this in Yellowstone county in Montana.....    |
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Post by woodman on Sept 29, 2015 12:09:10 GMT -5
As I stated earlier in another topic...I have had this petwood (47 pounder)with me for over 30 years-dragging it from house to house, state to state, when I moved! Finally I just headed to eastern Oregon and had Roy cut it up for me....Here is one of the slabs from the tree... Very unusual piece to say the least! If you look at it carefully, you see the bottom part of the core is missing. But wait, look up to the left corner, it's there.... Something happened to this tree before it was petrified and it broke and shifted that part of the log upward, than it stayed there after it petrified... Cool or what.....Has a bit of agate in it too.....I found this in Yellowstone county in Montana..... It is amazing what one finds. I wonder if your black slab will bleach out if laid out in the sun? A lot of them will really change. |
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 29, 2015 15:19:37 GMT -5
Howdy folks, Sitting around waiting for the wife to get home so here are a few more of my favorites. Pocket Rot Wood slab. One of the rarest wood types to be found down George West way. Lucky if I find a single small hunk per trip.  One road out there had a lot of these big limb casts. Looks like wood on the exterior but inside all kinds of wild mossy stuff. his one has some botryoidal stuff in the middle. Got to try and get my saw through it some day.  Big hunk of very colorful shrinkwood:  Another limbcast of another pattern:  I like this black and white stuff even if it is pretty common:  And finally, one of my largest hunks of palm fiber cut across the end. This was about eight inches long by maybe three wide  |
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Post by woodman on Sept 29, 2015 17:59:15 GMT -5
OK, one more and I will give you all a break. Not sure what it is but it is from Stinking water, believe it or not. I believe this is from an ealier time from the normal Stinking Water wood. 
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Post by broseph82 on Sept 29, 2015 18:04:16 GMT -5
This is the same slab that has the natural wood look on one side and this on the other. Just cut it tonight and exposed all these colors  This is what the plain side looks like  |
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Post by beefjello on Sept 29, 2015 18:28:27 GMT -5
Here's a few cool ones. Something with big cells from parts unknown  Another unknown, rough side of an end cut  Cut side, lots going on  A few collected near Holbrook AZ     One from a collection I picked up.. think it's AZ too. Again lots going on  Hopefully this works, I've been away for too long..  |
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Post by Thunder69 on Sept 29, 2015 20:05:15 GMT -5
All sweet pieces...welcome back Brian......
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Post by Noosh9057 on Sept 30, 2015 6:36:09 GMT -5
Great looking pieces.
Roger
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Post by Intheswamp on Sept 30, 2015 7:09:19 GMT -5
I posted this in another thread, but it's worth looking at some more. They call this type of pocket rot "conk wood".  That is beautiful. You could get lost staring down into that. |
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Post by Intheswamp on Sept 30, 2015 7:42:58 GMT -5
Interesting superstition. Is opal commonly found in pet wood, seems I've seen the term "opalized"(?) associated with pet wood several times?
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Post by Sabre52 on Sept 30, 2015 7:50:16 GMT -5
Wow that conkwood is really cool! It does appear to be pocket rot with fire opal. Is that from Virgin Valley? Those are a couple of fine pocket rot examples you have there too Brian.....Mel
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