More petrified wood

There sure has been a lot of petwood tumbled lately, and I'm going to add my own to the list here. Fortunately, petwood varies so much from place to place, that sometimes it's hard to believe it is the same material.

This is agatized petwood I've found locally in Alberta Canada. The recipe is 4-6 weeks in 60/90, 8 days in 120/220, 1.5 weeks in 500F, 2 weeks in CPP polish.

Ignore the yellow highlights and most of the red highlights in the following pics, they are mostly reflections from a nearby tree. Here's the whole schmeer:


And here's a few closer up views of the whole pile:






The size of the bands varies quite a bit. I can arbitrarily divide it into small bands (ignore the colourful highlights, those are reflections of a nearby tree):


medium bands (the most common type):


And wide bands:


And some just have cool patterns, like this:


Or this:


Or this one, with a solid druzy band running across the centre:


Or this one, shown up close, where there is a clear window that allows you to peek inside:


These ones have hints of red (real, not reflections), which I know is common in a lot of petwood (like NMRockhounds pics the other day). But around here, red is rare, and red that doesn't crumble is even rarer, so these ones are special finds to me:


Here's the rest of the batch, from left to right, some miscellaneous quartz, some quartzite, rose quartz, and amethyst:


And finally, here's that tree (Ohio buckeye) that was giving the yellow and red reflections -- it's fall in this part of the world!


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