petrified wood with bark

[bigfish31]

While slucing for gold on the yuba river, I must have moved this rock 3 or 4 times to direct the water. Then I saw what it was.

 

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[fossis]

Nice, maybe you can get it slapped, & polished.
Find any gold?

Fossis...............

 

[bigfish31]

I usually get a little over a gram at that spot. Real easy to get to, but lots small stuff.

 

[steve71]

While slucing for gold on the yuba river, I must have moved this rock 3 or 4 times to direct the water. Then I saw what it was.

i was told by an expert he said there is no petrified bark.i have a big piece thats looks like bark on it.the grain pattern will be different than the wood.lines will be going different ways.thats what i was told.

 

[nativetexan]

Steve, It look like this piece of tree limb has lots of bark. My friend from Beeville, TX gave it to me and I think it's local to that area.

 

[49er]

I have some petrified wood with bark on it that looks just like your piece. One question, Is it very heavy in weight compared to other rocks you moved? If so then you have a piece of petrified wood.....keep up the good work.

 

[nativetexan]

It's petrified wood for sure. It's a full piece of limb, like a short piece of firewood, with bark all way around. The separation between bark and wood is clearly visable. It appears to me that the piece was compressed under massive pressure while it was still green because it is in an unnatural oval shape. I't 13 in. long and weighs a little over 5 pounds. From it's tan color, I would say it resembles sandstone, but I'm no expert. My friend in Beeville TX gave it to me and I am going to find out when and where he found it. I think he has had it for over 30 years.

 

[fortunate]

Hey..I love this thread...I've been all over Alaska..and i can tell you..there's some great and wierd stuff in this state...for one thing, while jigging cod out off a small island called sand point.. I went to shore... found ALOT of petrified wood..some with bark...usually bark deteriorates before the rest of the wood is covered and petrifies..according to science. JUst how fast were those climatic changes anyway? heck...I could deliver 10 thousand pounds of that stuff in a heart beat, if i wanted, to anyone, anywhere.....
Fortunate

 

[chrisplay2004]

Nice Find, Find again, Find agian...oh cool!

Steve, Many samples I have found over the years in New Mexico have ad bark on them. One I have here at my office has a little bit of bark, see below, one at my house has bark all the way around and up a partial branch. I will post that one here soon. This one I found in a dry river bed along with many smaller pieces that usually dont have bark.
I will post more of this in new thread.

 

[bronco]

Big Fish,
Have you considered that it might be bone? Sure looks like it from here.

Tight lines

 

[bronco]

Yeah, I went back and looked again. I believe you have yourself a geniune fossil bone from a large critter. If it was me, I'd be all up in that creek looking for some more. Really it looks like a marine fossil. This may ruin you for gold hunting for a while. Hate to break it to you and your family, you are now going to have another addictive hobby.

I'm not an expert. Very cool find
imho

 

[bronco]

Post over on the fossil board, I'd like to see what others have to say. I live out east have often wondered if dinosaur bones have that same honeycomb charateristic as the marine mammal and ancient mammal stuff I find.