Re: Reported Post by SmokesAhoy
Its all moved hundreds of miles through glacial movement. Where did I learn that It takes lime to produce petrified wood.Is that correct. I do have several hardwood pieces not near as large. The mineral s make the darker colors and streaks , if i'm not mistaken.
None the less, very cool!
I don't recall if we have lots of petrified wood out here(probably not too much- we are about two steps removed from a desert climate here). On the family ranch (before the family sold it), they used to find all kinds of archeological stuff like arrowheads, stone morter and pestals, things like that. The ranch was really interesting like that. When I was a kid, I always liked going to my Grandma's house during the rainy season because the rain would wash the clay up into little balls. You could walk around and find little clay balls of all kinds of different colors. It was really neat.
Of course, being a kid, I also enjoyed all of the lizards everywhere! There are blue bellies all over the place out here (I vaguely recall seeing a horned toad one time too). Lots of Diamond back rattlesnakes as well.
Eh, now that I think of it, I vaugely recall my grandpa finding a few smaller pieces of petrified wood around. Nothing at all like the huge piece of smoky quartz he found (That thing has got to be worth a lot of money).