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Identity: Rocks or Petrified Wood
Posted on 3/10/26 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 3/10/26 at 6:08 pm
I was hoping perhaps there were some people here who may be familiar with petrified wood.
I was hunting for some arrowheads in a natural drainage area at the bottom of a mountain in the foothills of the Appalachians in Central Alabama and found these two small examples:
Is this petrified wood or just some colorful stone of some type?
I was hunting for some arrowheads in a natural drainage area at the bottom of a mountain in the foothills of the Appalachians in Central Alabama and found these two small examples:
Is this petrified wood or just some colorful stone of some type?
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Posted on 3/10/26 at 7:27 pm to Panic Collapse
Appears to be sedimentary.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:12 pm to TigerBalsagna
I agree with this. I’ve got some petrified wood that I found in the same area that I found arrowheads and chips where they were making them.
It looks just like a stick of wood except it’s a rock.
It looks just like a stick of wood except it’s a rock.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:39 pm to Panic Collapse
just rocks, pretty ones though
you can see the wood grain in petrified wood
you can see the wood grain in petrified wood
Posted on 3/10/26 at 9:43 pm to Panic Collapse
Looks like flint to me.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:18 pm to Panic Collapse
Definitely looks like chert/sedimentary layers that were laid down over each other. With that color I’d say the chert is flint maybe some jasper in there. It all started as a sedimentary rock and then a chemical replacement turned some of that limestone into what you are seeing now. That’s a very cool rock and as a fellow arrowhead hunter I’d definitely hang on to it!!
Posted on 3/10/26 at 10:22 pm to Panic Collapse
Rocks
Posted on 3/11/26 at 3:46 am to TigerBalsagna
Thank you, TigerBalsagna, and everyone else too. I appreciate the help.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 10:24 am to Panic Collapse
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I was hunting for some arrowheads in a natural drainage area at the bottom of a mountain in the foothills of the Appalachians in Central Alabama
Hog Mountain?
Posted on 3/11/26 at 10:26 am to TigerBalsagna
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Appears to be sedimentary.
This. But that middle layer in the first pic looks like it contains a lot of iron but something caused the small cavities. Very interesting.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 12:14 pm to Panic Collapse
Don't take it for granite.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 3:43 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Hog Mountain?
No, I'm not familiar with Hog Mountain.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 3:44 pm to Deep Fried Gravy
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Don't take it for granite.
I tried another site and got a detailed explanation of what it is.
Here it is:
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That’s interesting indeed.
It appears to be chert with a central vein with a partly oolitic limestone texture. Silica replacement of limestone layers or fractures where the original oolites have mostly been preserved.
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