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Post by Alice on Aug 2, 2005 13:09:53 GMT -5
Found this out by the water today. Thought it was a piece of wood at first, until I picked it up. Think it's pet wood? Can't say I've ever heard of pet wood findings in Montreal.   |
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Post by krazydiamond on Aug 2, 2005 13:17:14 GMT -5
i'm sure no expert, but it looks like pet wood to me!
KD
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Post by Tweetiepy on Aug 2, 2005 13:35:06 GMT -5
Sure looks like pet wood - does it clink? Toss that in the tumbler! Or keep it for show & tell! I didn't think this part of Canada had pet wood either!
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Post by Alice on Aug 2, 2005 13:39:15 GMT -5
maybe a boater dropped it and it washed up on shore? I really don't know how it got here. it's hard as rock!  Think I'll go back there tomorrow and see if I can find more.... you never know. |
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Post by stefan on Aug 2, 2005 14:03:04 GMT -5
Pet wood is available where you find it! I would guess that there is some in the water! How old is this water (lake?) or stream? It looks like classic Pet wood- and I would keep your etes open for more- Maybe find the forest this came from? Congrates on a very cool find (oh and don't tell tweet where this spot is- She is pretty desperate for local rock!)
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Post by Alice on Aug 2, 2005 15:02:14 GMT -5
LOL, Stefan I'm forever trying to get together with Tweetie. But I don't think she can go too far from home. I'd be more then happy to show her my spots. They're not big spots, but big enough to look for rocks, and enjoy a veiw of boats, and Montreal Island across the way. There are a lot of interesting rocks out there but you have to LOOK for them... but that's what rockhounding is all about, right? How old is the lake? It's probably as old as when the eatrh decided to split into continents. It's Lac St. Louis...Just on the border of Lac Deux Montagnes, and not far from the St. Lawrence sea way. No real forest around... it's all been developed 100+ years ago. I live in a very old part of town. I find a lot of quartzy stuff, granite, and a lot of fossil embedded rocks. Some of the fossil rocks are pretty soft and you are able to pick the fossil shells out with your fingers, or with the help of another rock (it's pretty cool!). While other rocks are impossible to break by taking another rock to it. Tweetie.... here's one of the spots I go rock hounding (where I found the pet wood). The water level is a lot lower then in the pictures these days, so there's more pickings. Come on over! and bring some shoes you don't mind getting wet  This is my oldest showing that not only are there rocks, but there are slimy clam shells there too   One of these days, I'm going to make my way to this place. Picture was taken from the place above, with a X2 zoom.  |
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Aug 2, 2005 15:39:42 GMT -5
Hi Alice,
If you have a magnifying glass look at your specimen carefully.
If you see that this piece has small cell structure it could be petrified dinosaur bone. A lot of smaller pieces of petrified dinosaur bone looks like petrified wood ... until you get a much closer look at it and see if it has any cell structure.
No visible cell structure ... then it is most probably petrified wood.
It's worth a look any way!
John
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Post by Alice on Aug 2, 2005 15:54:56 GMT -5
Dino bone in Quebec? Not likely at all... but you never know.
what do you mean by cell structure? Little pores?
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Post by Tweetiepy on Aug 2, 2005 17:39:56 GMT -5
Stefan: shame on you for excluding me and hounding me away! I don't get out much, and when I do it's with non-rockhounders - no one wants to follow me, they just wanna shop for clothes *bleurk*.
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Post by Debs on Aug 2, 2005 18:35:04 GMT -5
Good info! I would have never thought of that. Clueless in Iowa. Now I know...geez you learn something new every day! |
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Post by stefan on Aug 3, 2005 9:01:09 GMT -5
LOL at Tweet- Well lakes as old as those could be hiding many secrets in their depths! Remember for Pet wood we need 3 main things- Wood, Rapid covering of said wood (to stem off decay) and time! You have fossils (water based creatures) and all pet wood is is a fossil so it is possible!
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