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petrified wood

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:53 pm
by Red Oak
I was walking around the place on the Brazos Breaks yesterday with the surveyor and found petrified wood scattered in with the gravel and gypsum eroding out of the bluffs, I thought it was kind of interesting.

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:11 pm
by millergrovesue
Neat. I haven't seen any petrified wood in many years. Are you collecting it?

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:26 pm
by ralph
parent took us to the Petrified Forest when I was a kid . We had a petrified log laying on the raised hearth at my parents house for at least 55 years .

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:04 pm
by crocmommy
I remember going to the Petrified Forest with my Grandparents when I was in high school. Isn't it out around the Grand Canyon somewhere?

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:06 pm
by ralph
don't remember , think its in Arizona .

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:27 pm
by crocmommy
I used to find fossils of all kind and petrified wood when my grandparents had a cabin at Lake Whitney.

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 5:34 pm
by Red Oak
I picked up a couple of small pieces, I didn't have to to really look for it purposely.

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 6:54 pm
by ralph
don't know anything about the Brazos Breaks Bluffs but if a Bluff is what I'm thinking it is then stuff might be washing down all the time if it ever rains in the area .

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 12:17 am
by Red Oak
A little research turned up the possibility of a good chance of large animal fossils in the area.

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:15 am
by millergrovesue
Red Oak wrote:A little research turned up the possibility of a good chance of large animal fossils in the area.


So now you need some geology courses. :D

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:55 am
by LibraryLady
We have several pieces of petrified wood that came from the Glen Rose area.

The national park is in Arizona, CM.

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 9:39 am
by John in Plano
LibraryLady wrote:We have several pieces of petrified wood that came from the Glen Rose area.

The national park is in Arizona, CM.



Petrified Forest is on the north side of I-40 east of the Meteor Impact Crater, I'll be driving past them again in a couple weeks .

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:35 pm
by LibraryLady
We visited the meteor site. That's a dud stop! The graphics in the movie are circa 1950. :x
All was not lost as we had a little walk to break up the road trip.

Re: petrified wood

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 12:51 am
by jellowrestling
I thought this was going to be about Harry Reid