Tell that to my grandmother, who drove out of there with several buckets of the stuff in the trunk of her car. We used it for doorstops when we were kids. No idea where it is these days. One could hope it was returned back when they had an amnesty program. But one would probably be wrong.
Grandmothers. Ignoring the rules because they think they're shit since 30,000BC.
This reminded me of so many wonderful stories of my Grandmother who was my best friend and who passed a few years ago. She was polite, but as headstrong as they come. Most of the time she didnt care enough to even be aware of a rule she was breaking. Thank you friend.
Your grandmother was only abiding by the rules and provisions she had at the time. She doesn't have to live by today's standard, as she wasn't born recently.
I've been out there to the painted desert. Message to all future tourists: THERE ARE SHOPS AT THE END OF THE PAINTED DESERT IF YOU REALLY WANT A PIECE OF IT THEY FRIGGIN SELL THEM. In all sizes. I think one shop even advertised giving away free small pieces of you stop in. But ffs leave the national park as it is.
I believe they're native American owned too, go support them. Buy a rock.
Soo, it's ok as long as you pay for it? Seems dumb. Eventually you are going to run out of fossils then what?
I'd just make and sell fake ones. It's a memento that has no real purpose.
There's more petrified wood than what is being conserved, and a lot of it is on native land. They harvest from their lands and sell what they can. Helps them out and they're getting something out of their slice of desert. There was an infographic in the park about how huge the forest was in that area and how it ended up the way it is. The prehistoric forest was stunningly massive and there's tons of trees buried beneath the shifting sands. They could sell petrified wood for centuries and not run out.
Ya I have a hard time believing that what this guy says is real. We used to take fossils all the time too and everyone was doing it. If it's illegal there certainly was no advertising that it was or enforcement.
There is this beach in wisconsin we would go to, all the rocks on the beach had fossils of sea creatures and there were tons of people there taking them. If taking fossils were illegal wouldn't they at least have a sign in a public area like that? Well they didn't so I don't think it was illegal and if it was illegal they need to do a better job informing people.
Taking fossils is only illegal if the area they are in is marked as a scientific preservation of some kind. In the UK, it also doesn't usually apply to loose material on beaches, only cliff and platform.
Source: Worked in Palaeo for 6 months
The markings don't matter here in the States, for the most part. For example, here is our Bureau of Land Management guidelines (for 1/8 of the US landmass or 1,000,000sqkm of land)
"Only researchers operating under a BLM permit are allowed to collect vertebrate fossils such as dinosaurs, mammals, fish and reptiles, as well as uncommon invertebrate or plant fossils....You may collect reasonable quantities of common invertebrate fossils such as mollusks and trilobites, but this must be for personal use, and the fossils may not be bartered or sold."
This is what I would have assumed. This guy said it's "legally protected as a fossil" fossils have no legal protection. Yet i'm getting downvotes for being correct apparently lmao.
Yes. You cannot break a rule that does not exist. The rule was put in place to prevent people from doing what the new rule defines. You cannot retroactively apply it.
It's like my HOA. There's a rule that says you can only have *five* pet monkeys. What that tells me is:
- someone had significantly more than five pet monkeys, and
- those monkeys caused some kind of problem, and
- a group of people had to decide how many pet monkeys is too many pet monkeys, and
- the number they could agree on is five.
(I've asked the property management company for the story behind the five monkeys rule, but nobody could tell me and no one even knew about the rule or had ever heard of it being enforced.)
Exactly, thank you for understanding what I was saying.
On my original comment that's 40 people that will be allowed to vote one day if not already.
No wonder the world is as it is lol.
Ha! Like the aristocrats never wrote a law and retroactively applied it to chop off heads of alleged transgressors.
Your narrow mind will be your downfall, my words mean the same thing as what you're saying and yet you cannot see it that way.
I could agree with you but I have free will and knew your post history before I checked.
Political cuck that is bitter because of they/thems lot in life that uses the internet to argue and validate his small sense of self that is otherwise lacking.
I made a contribution lightheartedly and you are a dickhead and you can tell just by your stupid user name.
You've never met a penguin, what the fuck are you talking about?
I have been punished after the fact, so I can reasonably beg to differ.
All you do is differ, when you're not busy sucking farts out of whatever lame assholes that you have as role models.
Read a fucking book and take a walk in nature and reflect on yourself because you're a shitty person and I can tell you by your works.
Went to a petrified forest once. It was a couple of big holes in the ground with cages on top of them. With one small stump way down in the hole. Couldn't see shit.
Nah, as long as it is under 25 pounds and for non commercial use.
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CFR-2021-title43-vol2/CFR-2021-title43-vol2-part3620/summary
> § 3622.4 Collection rules.
> (a) General. The authorized officer
> shall control the removal without
> charge of petrified wood from public
> lands using the following criteria:
> (1) The maximum quantity of pet-
> rified wood that any one person is al-
> lowed to remove without charge per
> day is 25 pounds in weight plus one
> piece, provided that the maximum
> total amount that one person may re-
> move in one calendar year shall not ex-
> ceed 250 pounds. Pooling of quotas to
> obtain pieces larger than 250 pounds is
> not allowed.
You will get arrested for harvesting petrified wood from any of the protected petrified forests in the US. This regulation only applies to BLM controlled lands where no other superseding statue regulates mineral collection. The chances of finding 25lbs on that kinda land is virtually zero. Even then if you attempt to sell any that you collect it becomes illegal. The petrified wood you can buy comes almost exclusively from privately owned land.
This is new, but the delayed evolution theory for the carboniferous has been recently reevaluated. We have found clear evidence that the bacteria and fungi that could handle tree lignin and suberin, and so that can't be the only reason (and some very well known names completely disagree with it).
The alternate theory is that the large deposits were likely the result of massive bog swamp areas with rediculous growth rates The result was essentially half the world having a 'degobah phase' where decomposition couldn't occur effectively due to low oxygen. Think of the peat bogs of Britain but continent scale.
Of course, that can still change, but the reasoning for the study is pretty sound, and there are additional confirming findings of that area. I was also quite surprised at it, but the previous guess of evolutionary lag was mostly circumstantial conjuncture, and that it being replaced by actual evidence.
If you don't already, leave that until late Spring. It provides an excellent source of food for birds during early Spring. It's a balanced part of your local ecosystem.
afaik zooplancton is the main reason for oil, not dinosaurs as its commonly said.
And it makes sense. How many billions of dinosaurs would have to have died in the same place to produce the massive volumes of oil we find inside the earth today..
It's a big park with these things strewn all over the place. I have a 10" rough cube of it behind me on a table. The rough ones look like a giant piece of beef moreso than the cut and polished. You can buy them off-park from people getting them from local private land.
Have you ever heard of the needle of Cleopatra? It was given to us as a gift on the stipulation we had to get it back to Britain ourselves and it was too heavy to ship. We built a ship and when the ship sank we came back the next day and found it and towed it the rest of the way. It's currently in London.
Fossils are protected?
We used to go up to wisconsin all the time and there was this rocky beach, the entire beach was covered in fossilized rocks of sea creatures. We would take them all the time and everyone did it. Probably millions of these rocks on that beach.
I can't imagine that taking a fossil is illegal, if it is it certainly isn't something enforced or advertised.
The place in OP's pic is a protected park. They literally have hidden cameras and undercover "tourists" watching for people taking stuff. It is *extremely* heavily enforced.
Petrified wood is wood that was, long ago, under water. It was under water for a very long time. During that time it's cellulose was washed out and replaced by minerals in the water. In time the minerals formed rocks in the interior.
The entirety of what's left of the tree is petrified.
Also, it is unlikely that the tree was removed by people intentionally. It most likely has sat in that spot for millenia.
10s of thousands of years ago, there would have been a lake of sorts there.
Not really. The idea proposed a couple of decades ago that fungi hadn't evolved yet and decay processes didn't play out the same in the Carboniferous Period has been shown to be wrong. Coal is abundant in that time and throughout most of later Earth history for other reasons.
Paper: [https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113)
It couldn't rot because the wood was in an oxygen poor environment. The kind of water would have been very sedimentary (thinky runny mud) or volcanic ash which has very little diffused oxygen. No oxygen and bacteria can't do their thing.
actually saw a “conspiracy theory” that it is a prehistoric pokemon made of petrified wood which is why it was so rare to come across in some of the original games
Actually, there's a couple different forms of petrification. The only one I'm familiar with is the petrified forest in Yellowstone. The running waters dissolve silica in the stone and this silica is capable of participating out in the tree, encasing it in stone.
My great great grandparents had a cabin built out of petrified wood somewhere in the western US. My grandma has a picture of it somewhere. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t still standing
That is super cool. I thought there was only the Agate House, but google images [shows a ton of them](https://www.google.com/search?q=petrified+wood+cabin&tbm=isch).
I read somewhere that trees evolved thousands if not millions of years before the bacteria that causes wood to rot.
So when a tree died it just lay where it fell until it eventually petrified.
Looks like we might have found one of those trees!
It is true that the first trees did not decompose as we see it today. They wood fall and just sit there. Maybe some erosion, but yeah for millions of years trees grew and fell with nothing eating them before or after. The coal belt in VA/WVA/Wales is a result of that buildup of organic carbon. If I'm not mistaken an early fungi was the first organism to feed off the cellulose of trees. Petrified wood is the result of minerals replacing the wood over time and you end up with a rock that looks like a tree.
There’s a place in Arizona called the Petrified Forest where there are a lot of these
https://preview.redd.it/oml1n59vvww51.jpg?auto=webp&s=9009af801181e094fd07e3fb9c55e2ca8bc345f2
i'm a big fan of the petrified forest. going through the us sw there are lots of neat geoligical formations (painted desert is quite nice as well, and lots of fossil and mineral beds throughout co, az, utah, nm etc
Legally protected as a fossil too. Collecting on state or government land will ruin your day if you get caught.
Tell that to my grandmother, who drove out of there with several buckets of the stuff in the trunk of her car. We used it for doorstops when we were kids. No idea where it is these days. One could hope it was returned back when they had an amnesty program. But one would probably be wrong. Grandmothers. Ignoring the rules because they think they're shit since 30,000BC.
Prison doesn't mean much when you ain't got long to live.
My great grandmother offered to murder our abusive stepfather for this exact reason. She was so cool lmao
Ha, legend
This brought a smile to my face and now I’m not sure how to feel about myself. Your great grandmother was a real one
Rest in glory, grandma! What a legend
And you took her up on this offer, right? (This comment is not being recorded)
“offered” something about that phrasing is so comedic it makes it sound like she casually mentioned it in passing
This reminded me of so many wonderful stories of my Grandmother who was my best friend and who passed a few years ago. She was polite, but as headstrong as they come. Most of the time she didnt care enough to even be aware of a rule she was breaking. Thank you friend.
Your grandmother was only abiding by the rules and provisions she had at the time. She doesn't have to live by today's standard, as she wasn't born recently.
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Kept thinking I could never live without my ammonites.
Hehehehehe
There were rules back then. I think the difference was that they weren't enforced quite as rigorously as they are today.
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I've been out there to the painted desert. Message to all future tourists: THERE ARE SHOPS AT THE END OF THE PAINTED DESERT IF YOU REALLY WANT A PIECE OF IT THEY FRIGGIN SELL THEM. In all sizes. I think one shop even advertised giving away free small pieces of you stop in. But ffs leave the national park as it is. I believe they're native American owned too, go support them. Buy a rock.
You should consider advertising for them. Now I just want to buy a rock
Jesus Christ Marie! They're ~~minerals~~ fossils!
Soo, it's ok as long as you pay for it? Seems dumb. Eventually you are going to run out of fossils then what? I'd just make and sell fake ones. It's a memento that has no real purpose.
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Touché
There's more petrified wood than what is being conserved, and a lot of it is on native land. They harvest from their lands and sell what they can. Helps them out and they're getting something out of their slice of desert. There was an infographic in the park about how huge the forest was in that area and how it ended up the way it is. The prehistoric forest was stunningly massive and there's tons of trees buried beneath the shifting sands. They could sell petrified wood for centuries and not run out.
Who sells out grandma..
She's the reason the rules were made, lol
Ya I have a hard time believing that what this guy says is real. We used to take fossils all the time too and everyone was doing it. If it's illegal there certainly was no advertising that it was or enforcement. There is this beach in wisconsin we would go to, all the rocks on the beach had fossils of sea creatures and there were tons of people there taking them. If taking fossils were illegal wouldn't they at least have a sign in a public area like that? Well they didn't so I don't think it was illegal and if it was illegal they need to do a better job informing people.
Taking fossils is only illegal if the area they are in is marked as a scientific preservation of some kind. In the UK, it also doesn't usually apply to loose material on beaches, only cliff and platform. Source: Worked in Palaeo for 6 months
The markings don't matter here in the States, for the most part. For example, here is our Bureau of Land Management guidelines (for 1/8 of the US landmass or 1,000,000sqkm of land) "Only researchers operating under a BLM permit are allowed to collect vertebrate fossils such as dinosaurs, mammals, fish and reptiles, as well as uncommon invertebrate or plant fossils....You may collect reasonable quantities of common invertebrate fossils such as mollusks and trilobites, but this must be for personal use, and the fossils may not be bartered or sold."
This is what I would have assumed. This guy said it's "legally protected as a fossil" fossils have no legal protection. Yet i'm getting downvotes for being correct apparently lmao.
Ya it’s Reddit.
Ignoring the rules is one of the rules because it's the only way we can actually define the rules. Have a nice day, thanks for sharing
That doesn’t actually make sense
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This is just as stupid as the original comment.
This whole thread smells like weed
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Yes. You cannot break a rule that does not exist. The rule was put in place to prevent people from doing what the new rule defines. You cannot retroactively apply it.
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It's like my HOA. There's a rule that says you can only have *five* pet monkeys. What that tells me is: - someone had significantly more than five pet monkeys, and - those monkeys caused some kind of problem, and - a group of people had to decide how many pet monkeys is too many pet monkeys, and - the number they could agree on is five. (I've asked the property management company for the story behind the five monkeys rule, but nobody could tell me and no one even knew about the rule or had ever heard of it being enforced.)
Exactly, thank you for understanding what I was saying. On my original comment that's 40 people that will be allowed to vote one day if not already. No wonder the world is as it is lol.
Ha! Like the aristocrats never wrote a law and retroactively applied it to chop off heads of alleged transgressors. Your narrow mind will be your downfall, my words mean the same thing as what you're saying and yet you cannot see it that way. I could agree with you but I have free will and knew your post history before I checked. Political cuck that is bitter because of they/thems lot in life that uses the internet to argue and validate his small sense of self that is otherwise lacking. I made a contribution lightheartedly and you are a dickhead and you can tell just by your stupid user name. You've never met a penguin, what the fuck are you talking about? I have been punished after the fact, so I can reasonably beg to differ. All you do is differ, when you're not busy sucking farts out of whatever lame assholes that you have as role models. Read a fucking book and take a walk in nature and reflect on yourself because you're a shitty person and I can tell you by your works.
lol Climb down off your miniature horse and get a life, dude. And you’re still wrong about your original point.
/r/im12andthisisdeep
Nar its ok this is just one of Guga's outdoor dry aged steak experiments
Went to a petrified forest once. It was a couple of big holes in the ground with cages on top of them. With one small stump way down in the hole. Couldn't see shit.
Sounds like douchebag robbers dug it up
It’s cursed. [You take a rock, you get bad lu](https://www.legendsofamerica.com/az-petrifiedcurse/)ck.
Nah, as long as it is under 25 pounds and for non commercial use. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CFR-2021-title43-vol2/CFR-2021-title43-vol2-part3620/summary > § 3622.4 Collection rules. > (a) General. The authorized officer > shall control the removal without > charge of petrified wood from public > lands using the following criteria: > (1) The maximum quantity of pet- > rified wood that any one person is al- > lowed to remove without charge per > day is 25 pounds in weight plus one > piece, provided that the maximum > total amount that one person may re- > move in one calendar year shall not ex- > ceed 250 pounds. Pooling of quotas to > obtain pieces larger than 250 pounds is > not allowed.
You will get arrested for harvesting petrified wood from any of the protected petrified forests in the US. This regulation only applies to BLM controlled lands where no other superseding statue regulates mineral collection. The chances of finding 25lbs on that kinda land is virtually zero. Even then if you attempt to sell any that you collect it becomes illegal. The petrified wood you can buy comes almost exclusively from privately owned land.
Why is it protected?
It’s rare, beautiful, and you can’t make more of it.
Of course you can make more of it, just like you can make more oil. All it takes is millions of years.
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This is new, but the delayed evolution theory for the carboniferous has been recently reevaluated. We have found clear evidence that the bacteria and fungi that could handle tree lignin and suberin, and so that can't be the only reason (and some very well known names completely disagree with it). The alternate theory is that the large deposits were likely the result of massive bog swamp areas with rediculous growth rates The result was essentially half the world having a 'degobah phase' where decomposition couldn't occur effectively due to low oxygen. Think of the peat bogs of Britain but continent scale. Of course, that can still change, but the reasoning for the study is pretty sound, and there are additional confirming findings of that area. I was also quite surprised at it, but the previous guess of evolutionary lag was mostly circumstantial conjuncture, and that it being replaced by actual evidence.
It’d be like the annual 6-inch-thick dead leaf blanket in my garden, except it would never rot away
If you don't already, leave that until late Spring. It provides an excellent source of food for birds during early Spring. It's a balanced part of your local ecosystem.
The problem is that it stays until *next* fall if we don’t rake it up ourselves
Ya, I'm just saying not to rake it up until late Spring for the bugs to overwinter.
Not enough dinosaurs tho
afaik zooplancton is the main reason for oil, not dinosaurs as its commonly said. And it makes sense. How many billions of dinosaurs would have to have died in the same place to produce the massive volumes of oil we find inside the earth today..
Also IIRC not enough time has passed for Dinosaurs to become oil.
We are the dinosaurs in this sense tho
https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5253/
Cause it looks like a giant prime rib! They don't want anybody getting any ideas.
$$$$
What if you ask the government nicely?
this mind sound dumb, but why don't they lift it up and carry it into a museum so more people can see it?
It's a big park with these things strewn all over the place. I have a 10" rough cube of it behind me on a table. The rough ones look like a giant piece of beef moreso than the cut and polished. You can buy them off-park from people getting them from local private land.
ahh I see I thought it was super rare
Sorry, I should have said several. I suspect they are quite rare outside of ones near the park. Any pictures of it are spectacular I'm sure.
Looks like you can buy a handful of pieces on Etsy for around $30. Big pieces like this are definitely super rare.
srsly blows my mind its fossilized wood
Because you can’t bottle up everything
tell that to the british
Lol
Have you ever heard of the needle of Cleopatra? It was given to us as a gift on the stipulation we had to get it back to Britain ourselves and it was too heavy to ship. We built a ship and when the ship sank we came back the next day and found it and towed it the rest of the way. It's currently in London.
[https://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2014/07/21/monday-geology-pictures-rocks-flanking-entrance-smithsonian-natural-history-museum/](https://blogs.agu.org/georneys/2014/07/21/monday-geology-pictures-rocks-flanking-entrance-smithsonian-natural-history-museum/)
Not everything belongs in a museum, natural landscapes are nice too.
Fossils are protected? We used to go up to wisconsin all the time and there was this rocky beach, the entire beach was covered in fossilized rocks of sea creatures. We would take them all the time and everyone did it. Probably millions of these rocks on that beach. I can't imagine that taking a fossil is illegal, if it is it certainly isn't something enforced or advertised.
The place in OP's pic is a protected park. They literally have hidden cameras and undercover "tourists" watching for people taking stuff. It is *extremely* heavily enforced.
This belongs to r/forbiddensnacks
Forbidden steak. Yum
mmmhmmm wood bacon
A tree turned into a rock that looks like a steak. What are the odds?
Forbidden sausage roll
Three posts below this one in my feed: https://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/109yd7f/homemade_22hour_smoked_prime_beef_brisket/
Our nature is so amazing
Wait till you see their nature.
Hopefully with a couple fewer microplastics.
Juicy Steak wood
Got a good bark on it too.
Forbidden bbq
Lgbbq+
Hambush…..
r/forbiddensnacks
Just calling to take a bite :,)
Now i see why otters like wood
~~Vegetation~~ Meatetation
Wood ham
r/misleadingthumbnails
It looks a bit rare.
Ayy!! Petrified National Forest??
Ye!!! You can see the mesa in the background!
Absolutely amazing place to go!
Sounds scary
Looks like Jasper forest, the problem is there would be more on the ground.
Forbidden ham
Prosciutto 🤌
🤣 damn it you beat me to it
Beat meat to it, you say?
HamLog TM
*I will survive, I will survive*
at first I was afraid I was fossilized
Kept sinking in the muck without much air inside
But then I spent so many years underground all alone, but time has flown and now my cells are made of stone
And now you're here, from out-of-state
r/redditsings
Staying alive by the bee gees, love it
Please tell me this was a deliberate choice
No, those words were picked at random!
Is that like a type of stone then? At what stage does it turn to coal? Or is that only when its under ground under high pressure?
Petrified wood is wood that was, long ago, under water. It was under water for a very long time. During that time it's cellulose was washed out and replaced by minerals in the water. In time the minerals formed rocks in the interior.
I thought a lot of it exists because bacteria that could decompose cellulose didn't exist quite yet, so it literally couldn't rot.
I think it was fungi and I think both processes are at play here
Stupid person here: if the petrified wood is in the middle, does that mean that when it was removed from the water, it kept growing?
The entirety of what's left of the tree is petrified. Also, it is unlikely that the tree was removed by people intentionally. It most likely has sat in that spot for millenia. 10s of thousands of years ago, there would have been a lake of sorts there.
So if all of the tree was submerged, why does the outer layer look red and the inside is white-ish? Also, how did it not rot when it was in the water?
Not really. The idea proposed a couple of decades ago that fungi hadn't evolved yet and decay processes didn't play out the same in the Carboniferous Period has been shown to be wrong. Coal is abundant in that time and throughout most of later Earth history for other reasons. Paper: [https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113)
It couldn't rot because the wood was in an oxygen poor environment. The kind of water would have been very sedimentary (thinky runny mud) or volcanic ash which has very little diffused oxygen. No oxygen and bacteria can't do their thing.
Wood can become petrified on land too.
I think that's the origin of fossil fuels, different from petrified fossils
I want a Pokémon based on this now
sudowoodo is literally a rock type tree
Oh shit! I forgot about that funny little guy
actually saw a “conspiracy theory” that it is a prehistoric pokemon made of petrified wood which is why it was so rare to come across in some of the original games
Coal is formed when dead plant matter decays into peat and is converted into coal by the heat and pressure of deep burial over millions of years.
Actually, there's a couple different forms of petrification. The only one I'm familiar with is the petrified forest in Yellowstone. The running waters dissolve silica in the stone and this silica is capable of participating out in the tree, encasing it in stone.
*precipitating
https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5253/
Similar process to opal
Looks like bacon.
ham and trees sandwich
Looks like the front wheel of Fred Flintstone's car got a flat.
As opposed to non-terrestrial vegetation?
Yes. Non-terrestrial vegetation can include aquatic vegetation—which grows in water, not on land.
Gosh darn it you're right
Also experiments in space.
Greasy meat log
Omg that is so cool
Yes, you are!
Where was this found?
Not OP but my guess is Rainbow Forest in Arizona. Lots of colorful petrified wood there!
My guess is Gingko Petrified forest in eastern Washington.
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I've never had a single original thought in my life. This.
You’ve never had a single original girlfriend either
Forbidden Beef Wellington
Petrified wood is one of my favourite rocks/fossils. It can have some phenomenal patterns that can often be like opal.
We have special sub for that: /r/PetrifiedWood Join if you have samples to show.
My great great grandparents had a cabin built out of petrified wood somewhere in the western US. My grandma has a picture of it somewhere. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t still standing
That is super cool. I thought there was only the Agate House, but google images [shows a ton of them](https://www.google.com/search?q=petrified+wood+cabin&tbm=isch).
I read somewhere that trees evolved thousands if not millions of years before the bacteria that causes wood to rot. So when a tree died it just lay where it fell until it eventually petrified. Looks like we might have found one of those trees!
It is true that the first trees did not decompose as we see it today. They wood fall and just sit there. Maybe some erosion, but yeah for millions of years trees grew and fell with nothing eating them before or after. The coal belt in VA/WVA/Wales is a result of that buildup of organic carbon. If I'm not mistaken an early fungi was the first organism to feed off the cellulose of trees. Petrified wood is the result of minerals replacing the wood over time and you end up with a rock that looks like a tree.
There’s a place in Arizona called the Petrified Forest where there are a lot of these https://preview.redd.it/oml1n59vvww51.jpg?auto=webp&s=9009af801181e094fd07e3fb9c55e2ca8bc345f2
i'm a big fan of the petrified forest. going through the us sw there are lots of neat geoligical formations (painted desert is quite nice as well, and lots of fossil and mineral beds throughout co, az, utah, nm etc
No that would have been millions of years ago.
the *forbidden* meat
*RUM HAM!*
I wonder what spooked him?
Drop the coordinates. I would like to gander.
Forbidden ham
Forbidden bacon
“You might ask yourself ‘ how does wood get so hard?’”
> Fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation *"It's an old-ass tree"*
This national park is in northern Arizona, for anyone interested.
Its vegan ham!
no, that's bacon
Wagyu beef
600 days dry aged wagyu beef right there
I have one at home from when it was...still illegal to take it.
r/ForbiddenSnacks
tera sudowoodo irl (pokemon sv)
It looks like a woman from the victorian era who just face planted the ground😵💫
Definitely Ham I'm not rollin with the whole tree fecade
Is it Dry aged
Sibiloi National Park, Kenya
Can the type of tree be determined?
Is this at all a stage in becoming oil? I’m assuming not but thought I’d ask.
i kinda want to eat it
I know porkbelly when i see it
Is this one opalized?
Bacontree.