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    I live in south central Texas, a place that used to be the bottom of a shallow sea. There are many different kinds of petrified wood on this property. Many I believe to be several hard wood types, although I do not have the equipment to classify the different types. Many I know are petrified palm wood. There are many kinds of different palm woods on this property, some of which are the state stone of Texas. I have found some sort of petrified vine, and after cutting it I still do not know for sure what it is. The person that runs a rock shop has said it was some sort of vine. It is coal black with some red spots in the cut end. It is a beautriful peace.

I have also found a lot of marine fossils and I can not find anyplace on the web to identify them. They are not in several books on Texas fossils. i have several grasses in what appears to be flint rock and what appears to be some sort of tube worm in flint also. I have found several of these. If any one from Texas reads this I would like to hear from you via email.tooter 04:33, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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Petrified Wood
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I have this image, which offers a lot more detail. Adding or replacing? --Dschwen 01:56, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I just added it at 300px just to see what it looked like with the earlier pic. What do you think? I'd say add it. Play with size maybe. -Vsmith 02:43, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
With two pics in the article I think I prefer the Wikipedia default thumbnail size. The fullsize pictures on the other hand should be as big as possible (in agreement with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy --Dschwen 02:54, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Works for me. That is a great photo at full scale. The article could use a bit more info ... maybe some day. -Vsmith 03:16, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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How long does it take petrified wood to form?

I would really like to know that also. I think this article needs a little more info. It's why I searched the article out. --Shinto 07:03, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

How do these trees form, if they are going through layers that span 100 000 years? :X --Ningyou 03:52, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, more specific information relating to the age of such fossils is needed here. Such wood fossils are paleontologically "recent", because hardwood plants/trees came into being after the Cretaceous period of geologic time came to an end some 65 million years ago - along with the dinosaurs - because of a cometary collision with Earth. -- Khorasani 14:26, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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