Where To Find Petrified Wood In Arkansas

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Where to find petrified wood in arkansas.

We went camping in the arkansas river valley across from mt antero princeton and shivano. Most people are familiar with famous petrified wood occurrences such as the petrified forest national park in arizona. It was a muddy camp trip because of the monsoonal moisture but that heavy rain helped cool it off in the evenings making for great camp sleeping. Quarternary gravel deposits that cover much of the area yield some cuttable petrified wood in the northeastern part of the state and sparse mastodon and mammoth remains.

Because most specimens are cream to white in color little interest has been expressed by hobbyists in cutting and polishing the material. North of fordyce on arkansas hwy 8. Apparently near there there are petrified wood including palm jaspers banded chert quartz and some opalized wood opal veins. Our secret private campsite at ruby mountain.

Petrified wood like other fossils forms when minerals replace the organic material that makes up an organism in this case a tree. Discovered some petrified wood while camping this last weekend. It is quite easy to find petrified wood in arkansas but there is no actual petrified forest like what you see in arizona. Petrified wood silicified petrified wood is present in quaternary gravel deposits in eastern and southern arkansas.

We also have this curious fossil in arkansas. About 25 years ago i found a chunk of petrified wood in my backyard in north little rock but i suspect that it was from someplace else and a former owner left it or buried it there.