Day: April 9, 2023

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SiS STUNNING 15 Cottonwood Slab Sweet Home Petrified Wood EXQUISITE SLAB

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This is a gorgeous petrified cottonwood slab from the old Johnson Ranch near the Holley crossroads in Oregon. This area has long been prized as providing some of the best preserved modern wood species in petrified wood found anywhere on the planet. The high contrast colors in this specimen are pretty dramatic for this region […]

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TEN Petrified Pine Cones, with seeds, from Western Sahara (Morocco)

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There are TEN petrified pine cones (probably Equicalastrobus sp) in this collection. They were found far west of Boujdour, in Western Sahara (Morocco). The petrified cones presumably date from the Eocene (54 to 37 million years ago), as they were surface collected in Eocene deposits. The cones range in length from 2.33 to 1.65 inches. […]