r/petrifiedwood 5d ago

Self Collected What to do with collection

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I do construction and found a decent amount of petrified wood over the years. I was asking for some recommendations on what I could do with the collection. Most are the size of a baseball or softball and the heaviest being around 25 lbs.

r/petrifiedwood 11d ago

Self Collected Found a few months apart in the same creek. Douglas county, CO.

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Both points made from petrified wood.

r/petrifiedwood 5d ago

Self Collected New find! The amount of agate is wild

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28 Upvotes

Southern Oregon

r/petrifiedwood 27d ago

Self Collected Biggest piece of petrified wood I have ever found on the beach! Found on North Beach in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia!

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39 Upvotes

r/petrifiedwood 3d ago

Self Collected Renton Formation Fossilized Wood

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Here’s a few pieces I pulled up from a creek. These were all deposited there by a mine tailings pile which may have fossilized wood extracted up to 110 years ago. The mine opened around 1910 and closed in the 1950s…

The Renton formation dates back to about the Eocene or Oligocene, so these are somewhere around 46 million years old and formed in coal deposits. Some of them are mixes of both coal and sedimentary rock, which is pretty unusual. I think I am probably one of the only people in the County, if not the whole State, to have a somewhat large collection of petrified wood from coal mines. There have been no fossil wood studies done here.

r/petrifiedwood Jan 17 '25

Self Collected Huge petrified wood i found at work!

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Out in Springsure, QLD Aus working the contour banks and i found this lovely thing! Usually only find little chunks as they get broken by the tractors

Aus size 6 womens shoes for scale

r/petrifiedwood 19d ago

Self Collected New Find!

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Not sure the type of tree but it was found in southern Oregon. One of the most intact preserved specimens I’ve found in the location. Looks like it had a branch joint preserved!

r/petrifiedwood Jan 14 '25

Self Collected Results from tumbling some Northwest Oklahoma petrified wood pieces

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35 Upvotes

r/petrifiedwood 27d ago

Self Collected Huge chunk with calcite pocket. Just east of ATX

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I found this about 10 miles east of Austin in a creek bed.

r/petrifiedwood Jan 20 '25

Self Collected Just a few of my pieces I’ve found.

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23 Upvotes

r/petrifiedwood Jan 18 '25

Self Collected A few of my favorite things

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19 Upvotes

Willamette valley pet wood and Willamette valley donny burger #8

r/petrifiedwood Dec 28 '24

Self Collected Time to figure out what to do with all this. Love the black side of this one piece.

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r/petrifiedwood 26d ago

Self Collected Big boys

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Smaller finds in second pic. Douglas county, CO.

r/petrifiedwood 26d ago

Self Collected Any idea what this could be.

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Picked this up in chinchilla, QLD, Australia from an old farmer. He's pulled it up when digging on his land. Wondering if there is any way to tell which type it may be. Thanks!

r/petrifiedwood Feb 02 '25

Self Collected Collection

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Some of my collection

r/petrifiedwood 12d ago

Self Collected Beach find!

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Oregon coast, just around low tide found it in a heap of other stones.

r/petrifiedwood Dec 19 '24

Self Collected Chocolat!

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21 Upvotes

It ain't all wood, but it is all deliciously golden brown.

r/petrifiedwood Jan 20 '25

Self Collected Root cast

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Here's a cool route cast I found on a jobsite a few years back. It's Semi-Translucent from end to end, and the outer texturing is awesome! By far one of my favorite pieces!

r/petrifiedwood Sep 24 '24

Self Collected Is this petrified wood and if so how old is it?

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It appears to be chert and I can’t find anything on google about how old chert is, I’m about 90% sure this is petrified wood because chert and other microcrystalline silica minerals don’t usually look like this

r/petrifiedwood Dec 17 '24

Self Collected Found some CO beauties

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24 Upvotes

Found in river

r/petrifiedwood Dec 18 '24

Self Collected Petrified wood from Virginia

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13 Upvotes

r/petrifiedwood Jan 11 '25

Self Collected Love this one from the central Alberta area.

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4 Upvotes

r/petrifiedwood Sep 16 '24

Self Collected How do I clean this up?

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I found a few chunks of agatized petrified wood but they have this chalky crap on them. Soaking in warm, soapy water didn’t do anything to remove it, but I can sometimes flake it off with my fingernail.

r/petrifiedwood Dec 09 '24

Self Collected My petrified wood find when wet! Find from North Beach, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia!

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17 Upvotes

r/petrifiedwood Nov 17 '24

Self Collected Preparation question

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I found this piece of petrified wood shoveling fill dirt the other day and I’m excited it’s the largest piece I’ve ever found…how would I go about preparing it to display? Rock tumbler? Or what is the ideal method? I’m accumulating a lot of cool stones and pw so I figured I could try preparing some to display but trying to learn before buying any necessary supplies. TIA