Tag: petrified wood
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Throwback Thursday #259: Looking Back At ESCONI For April 2025
This is Throwback Thursday #259. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com. 25 Years Ago – April 2000 50 Years Ago – April 1975 70 Years Ago – April…
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Wyoming Couple Finds Forest of Gigantic 60 Million-Year-Old Petrified Trees
Examples of metasequoia trees similar to the petrified specimen found by a Wyoming couple recently on their property. (Photo by Erik Herman, Harvard.edu) Cowboy State Daily has a story about the discovery of some gigantic petrified trees near Buffalo, Wyoming. The fossil tree trunks were found while building an RV park. The fossils date to…
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Video: ESCONI October 2020 General Meeting – “The Blue Forest of Ancient Lake Gosiute”
At the October 2020 General Meeting, we had Mike Viney speak about the petrified wood of the Blue Forest in Wyoming. The Zoom meeting video has been processed and is now available for viewing. After the presentation, Mike sent a pdf with many of his slides (RBlueForestOfAncientLakeGosiute). Mike is a Teacher in Residence at…
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World’s Oldest Fossil Forest Unearthed
SciNews has a post about the oldest forest ever discovered. Located in Cairo, NY, near the Devonian fossil forest found near Gilboa, this forest has been dated to about 386 million years old, which is a couple million years older. Details can be found in a paper which was recently published in the journal Current…
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The End of Petrified Wood Collecting on Public Lands?
SaveFossilCollecting has a post about the new proposed fossil collecting regulations on public lands. The article does a good job explaining the issue. Additionally, there are other informative posts on the website. Petrified wood represents a stone of unique interest in the hearts and minds of the many collectors found in virtually every part of…
