Before you collect, get permission and collecting rules from the owner of private property or from the government agency in charge of any government land where collecting will occur. People have gone to jail for collecting petrified wood on lands where removing it is a criminal act.
Please see our article on the legal aspects of rock, mineral and fossil collecting. Tumbled petrified wood: One of the most popular lapidary activities that uses petrified wood is rock tumbling. Small pieces of petrified wood that are free of pores and fractures are placed in a rock tumbler and tumbled with successively finer abrasives and finally with a rock polish. The results are polished pieces of petrified wood in baroque shapes showing the color and grain of the wood.
Crystals inside petrified logs: Some petrified logs contain a spectacular surprise! Cavities within them served as crystallization locations for quartz crystals such as the citrine yellow, left and amethyst purple, right shown here. Images by Petrified Forest National Park. Louisiana palm wood: An oval cabochon cut from Louisiana Palm "Wood. The lines represent the vascular structure of the plant.
The cabochon is about 57 x 33 millimeters in size. A material found in the Catahoula Formation of Louisiana , Mississippi and Texas is widely known as " petrified palm wood. These tubes transported water, nutrients, wastes and other materials through the plant. Author: Hobart M. King , Ph. How Does it Form? Opal Chalcedony Specific Gravity 2. Find Other Topics on Geology. Maps Volcanoes World Maps. The Green River Formation. Fossil Gems. Animal Fossils. Petrified Wood.
Fossil Kits. No other state has the diversity of ancient wood that Oklahoma does. Petrified wood forms when wood is quickly buried in sand or mud, typically in a river channel during a flood. In some cases, however, wood can be buried in a beach or rafted into a deep-marine environment. Under the right conditions, silica SiO 2 dissolved in groundwater is "templated" on the organic material in the wood; in addition, some silica crystallizes within the pore spaces in the wood.
Depending on the timing of the various processes and the degree to which they progress, the wood can be fragile and splintery or completely solid, and the cellular structure of the wood can be perfectly preserved or completely destroyed. Some "fossil wood" in Oklahoma, while it looks and "feels" like petrified wood is, in fact, not petrified wood. The logs were not preserved in a standing position. Most of them were transported for some distance before being buried.
There are rooted stumps that can be found in the backcountry of the park. What kinds of trees were these? They were coniferous trees, tree ferns, and some gingkoes. How many different types of trees are found petrified in the park?
Nearly a dozen types of petrified wood have been formally described. There are probably more species that have yet to be described. Do the trees found in the park resemble any of the tropical conifers growing in the world today? There are fossil trees that are related to living gingkos, too. Geologically speaking, how old are these trees? Radioisotopic dates zircons tell us that the trees in the Black Forest were deposited about million years ago and those in the Blue, Jasper, Crystal, and Rainbow Forests were deposited around million years ago.
Do the rings we see in some of the petrified wood represent annual growth rings? As sub-tropical to tropical trees, they probably grew year-round.
There would need to be a growing season versus a non-growing season to create annual growth rings. How tall were these trees?
Two trees in the Long Logs area of the Rainbow Forest measure and feet long. This indicates that some of the trees may have approached at least feet 61 m tall when alive. Is this the largest concentration of petrified wood in the nation?
In the world? This is considered one of the largest concentrations in the world, with other large ones found in North Dakota, Argentina, and Egypt.
What mineral s replaced the wood? The mineral silica, from volcanic ash, in various stages of crystallization replaced most of the organic wood. Minor minerals, such as iron, manganese, and carbon add the rainbow of colors. Where were the volcanoes that provided the ash and silica to petrify these logs?
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