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Strange rock #7611573
06/24/22 08:50 AM
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Petrified Wood???

Or what say you?

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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7611581
06/24/22 09:05 AM
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Very cool rock! That looks nothing like the petrified wood I find in my area, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't look different in your area. My thinking is that it looks maybe like a slag or obsidian of some sort...maybe? It really does look like it has wood grain and wood color though! Heres a pic of a petrified stump from my area in central ND. Being not too far away over there in MN, I would assume yours would look fairly similar?

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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7611582
06/24/22 09:06 AM
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Looks like it to me.


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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7611587
06/24/22 09:17 AM
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It's super heavy for its size


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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7611597
06/24/22 09:34 AM
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Is it magnetic?


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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7611602
06/24/22 09:51 AM
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I have a slice of this- someone told me it was Tiger Eye but I have no idea... I use it for my coffee coaster, but it has similar characteristics to yours.
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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7611790
06/24/22 01:04 PM
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Yup, petrified wood. very pretty. smile

The reason it is heavy is because of the mineralization *. cool


* (it soaked up a bunch of heavy stuff) grin



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Re: Strange rock [Re: SJA] #7611836
06/24/22 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by SJA
Is it magnetic?

Nope!


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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7611938
06/24/22 04:52 PM
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Instant I saw the pic, I thought, Slag or some kind of igneous product.


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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7611960
06/24/22 05:22 PM
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My grandparents had a piece of petrified wood on their living room table. I have no idea what part of the country it came from since I've never heard of anyone finding any here. It looked exactly like that.


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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7611976
06/24/22 05:51 PM
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I would say it is petrified wood. I have a petrified wood that came from ND that looks nothing like the one DakotaBoy posted. I have a half dozen of them. I found a piece out on Rootok Island in AK too. There are no trees on Rootok and never have been.


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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7612160
06/24/22 11:18 PM
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MJM the earth has rotated on it[s axis several times, there was tropic trees on Elsemere Island and lots of petrified up there

Glaciation moves thing around and that is how it got down to you
Nice find

Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7612163
06/24/22 11:27 PM
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Appreciate the comments


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Re: Strange rock [Re: 330-Trapper] #7612245
06/25/22 07:19 AM
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WI>>>MN >>>WI
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Petrified wood comes in as many forms as wooden wood.

Yours is a specimen.


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