A few more...
Dec 18, 2015 11:26:55 #
Another couple of samples. The wood is a sample of Araucarioxylon Arizonicum, which is an extinct species of tree, identified in Arizona. I have quite a bit fossilized wood, in various shapes and sizes.
I love the colour of the Hemimorphite crystals.
The last one is a slice of a nodule, which had been filled and petrified again, I suppose. You don't often see the insides of these things.
I love the colour of the Hemimorphite crystals.
The last one is a slice of a nodule, which had been filled and petrified again, I suppose. You don't often see the insides of these things.
Some petrified wood from the Triassic period
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Blue Hemimorphite crystals
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Polished nodule slice - mud-dried concretion, later filled with calcite and Aragonite
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Dec 18, 2015 16:21:38 #
Dec 18, 2015 16:31:32 #
Bloke wrote:
Another couple of samples. The wood is a sample of Araucarioxylon Arizonicum, which is an extinct species of tree, identified in Arizona. I have quite a bit fossilized wood, in various shapes and sizes.
I love the colour of the Hemimorphite crystals.
The last one is a slice of a nodule, which had been filled and petrified again, I suppose. You don't often see the insides of these things.
I love the colour of the Hemimorphite crystals.
The last one is a slice of a nodule, which had been filled and petrified again, I suppose. You don't often see the insides of these things.
You really speak to my soul when you post your rocks. I have a great love of all rocks and stones. As a child in a growing subdivision there were piles of rocks gravel if you will but in those piles were some very interesting rocks and fossils, they were my treasures. I was hooked. So carving stones, collecting rocks and loving them as I do I really appreciate your posts.
Dec 18, 2015 17:20:42 #
Corolyn wrote:
You really speak to my soul when you post your rocks. I have a great love of all rocks and stones. As a child in a growing subdivision there were piles of rocks
gravel if you will
but in those piles were some very interesting rocks and fossils, they were my treasures. I was hooked. So carving stones, collecting rocks and loving them as I do I really appreciate your posts.
Thank you for this... I sometimes hesitate, wondering if I am boring everyone to tears with these posts. I bought a lot of them just because I liked the colours, or the look of them, but I have tried to find out what I could, and pass on the accumulated 'wisdom'. I am also starting to get the urge to start adding some more decent fossils to the collection, but that will depend on cashflow in the new year.
I do have some new gear coming in the next couple of weeks, and I intend to start trying to get much closer with the photos. I have a bag of 'polished gravel' if you like, to start working through. They aren't big enough to photograph like I have been, and I didn't have room to display them, so they are still in the bag they arrived in, some 3 or 4 years ago. I am looking forward to delving in!
Dec 18, 2015 19:09:58 #
Bloke wrote:
Thank you for this... I sometimes hesitate, wond... (show quote)
I am so glad that you are continuing with this interest. I have some polished stones that I have turned into jewelry and as soon as I have the time I will start photographing my creations.
Dec 19, 2015 10:20:11 #
Bloke wrote:
Another couple of samples. The wood is a sample of Araucarioxylon Arizonicum, which is an extinct species of tree, identified in Arizona. I have quite a bit fossilized wood, in various shapes and sizes.
I love the colour of the Hemimorphite crystals.
The last one is a slice of a nodule, which had been filled and petrified again, I suppose. You don't often see the insides of these things.
I love the colour of the Hemimorphite crystals.
The last one is a slice of a nodule, which had been filled and petrified again, I suppose. You don't often see the insides of these things.
Very pretty and would make beautiful inlays on a table top...Rich
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