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Well you got me, although I promise I didn't buy it, (dug it out the ground right there) I did break it open off camera first, which is why it looks so fake in the video. Good eye tho!

So, it can be created by floods, but by using modern radioactive dating techniques, we can actually figure out when it was deposited, and for these, they are about 30 million years old. During that time there isn't much evidence for a world wide flood, but in the area I found the wood there was one that carried a bunch of volcanic ash from new mexico and arizona, which is what agatized this wood.

I've seen ones of similar size and quality go for 150-300$ although the hard part is finding someone to buy it. Not all are that big, they range in size from smaller than your pinky to bigger than a fully grown person (not that big here in texas). And as far as what it is, it's an ammonite, a extinct relative of the nautilus, basically a squid that had a snail like shell.

Good to know, what is it then?

@@thenathanthomas its fabricated. They made it themself. Idk how long something would take to turn from living to stone, but it would be more then 6000 years. Therefore its not possible. Fake. And only blasphemers and anti-christ belive its older than 6000 years.

@@thenathanthomas a sculpture. They made this to spread false evidence of evolution. And as intelligent people know, evolution is a hoax. We were created in God's image 6000 years ago when He created the earth.

It is certainly petrified, which is also fossilized. It's kinda like the square, rectangle thing. Petrified wood is always considered fossilized, but not all fossilized wood is considered petrified. This one had its cellular structure replaced by an agate, making it "petrified."

Some of them are deceiving, they break a lot

Thanks!

Hundreds of em

I'm more in south east texas, I'm on the brazos river in this one

I'll watch it if you take a history of the geologic earth course at your local community college.

Nope, no tarnishing yet, when I got home and tested it turns out it was indeed pyrite, so "fools gold" is what caught my eye, still pretty cool tho.

Sure is!

So the reason it looks like it has been cut by a saw is because the quartz that filled the wood grains fractures along planes, when put undre stress. These logs are about 30 million years old, from the oligocene period, and have only seen humans after being petrified.

Thank you

I'm in east texas and done ever find em that big

@Bigfoot903Outdoors it was my first time finding one that big, I read about them possibly being in that area, so had to check it out!

Well as far as uses I've seen people make furniture, knife handles, and even a house out of it, but you can also use it to look at the cells of the ancient tree, if you cut a really thin slice.

@@thenathanthomas ok cool, I was thinking about scales for a knife handle. Appricate the video an response!

Definitely!

Depending on the type and size it can be worth a few hundred

Broken. Not saw cut. Lol.

There is tons of it, that's for sure, and the reason it looks saw cut is because the minerals in the wood will break along planes creating smooth breaks.

The crazy thing is they can be even bigger

It was the best find of the day, that was the first time I'd checked out that spot, but found a good amount of peices.

So these are cool because they are from the oligocene period, roughly 30 million years old, and have been fully replaced by an agate, preserving the wood.

@@thenathanthomas oh. That is cool. Thank for the info!

Anytime!

This thread is wholesome

@@turbidpie8525 that is because this thread only contains adults 😂

Now that's an awesome find!!

It definitely made mine

It sure is!

Thank you kindly

Not at the moment, not 100% but it might be illegal

I found some bigger pieces, should post them in a day or so, but no full logs yet, I'm planning on going back tho, so hopefully I'll find one.

Thank you, it sure is abundant here! But actually yall do have some petrified wood over there in the Negev desert you aperantly can find it in the HaMakhtesh HaGadol formation. It's not as common and not opalized like we have here, but there are some interesting specimens found.

@@thenathanthomas יI traveled in the Negev several times, and found shells and crystals, I didn't see a petrified tree, I need to check more, but how do you even know how to pronounce "the great crater"המכתש הגדול״ in Hebrew and Negev? you know Hebrew? you are really smart

@user-vm6qx2mx5z I don't know Hebrew, I just read a lot of papers, when I was doing research on petrified wood I came across the formation in Israel, it's pretty interesting. But that's really cool, it would be awesome to look around there, what types of shells did you find?

@@thenathanthomas יHi, sorry for the time, it was Shabbat with us and it is forbidden to use electricity on Shabbat, , in the mountains of Elat and in the great crater there are all kinds of fossils, there are mountains with black stones, stones that have been burned by the sun, and then the fossils that have them are just like snails but the structure of the shell is different and hollow and thin, , I also found a fossil of a really big snail the size of two fists, with The creature that is fossilized there, I found half a fossil of an ammonite, with crystals inside, I found a lot of ammonite, that sea lions abound there, and fossilized sea urchins, But it's more in the Negev region and the Eilat mountains, In the area where I live in Judea and Samaria there is not much, we have goths from the 2nd and 1st Temple period, there are potsherds, there is the altar that Joshua ben Nun bena who entered the land after Shemshe Matek, there is a water well near the house from the 2nd Temple period, and that's about it

Thank you for the information and stories they are really interesting im going to have to do more reaserch on the area for sure! I'm definitely jealous, keep exploring and I'd always like to hear more!

My bad, I kinda got distracted by the other peice, but basically the logs get covered by silica rich sediment, in this case it's a quartz rich sand with some traces of volcanic materials. And then over time the preasure of the surrounding material will force silicon into the cells of the log, filling and replacing the organic material, leaving the perfectly preserved peices. You can even see the individual wood cells if you look under a microscope.

The 21 bridge

Right?

Wich flood?

@nicolabreuss328 the brazos river has been flooded lately because of rains in north texas.

It sure does, but sometimes it exposes new questions.

Depends on how you get preserved

It sure does, it's an ancient cone snail.

🤣🤣🤣 exactly

A lot of them end up breaking apart during deposition.

@@thenathanthomas ohh

Thanks!

It's a combination of things, the limestone is more resistant to weathering than any sandstone or shale that may be interbeded, so that goes first, and then the limestone will chemically react with the water and eventualy dissolve, leaving the pattern, although, the current of the river is what stretches it out, in more stationary bodies it can form pockets of water eroding away the limestone, being much more circular.

South padre

Thank you!

I'll leave that to you, just don't eat the tentacles

Urine has shown no actual benefit, and will probably cause infection, best to stick with numbing cream and hydrogen peroxide.

Ouch, I've never actually heard of someone getting stung before, glad you're ok.

@@thenathanthomas I was NOT OK for about 15 minutes of unadulterated pain! I felt like a wounded fish with shark's and barracuda around, so I got out of the water and into a skiff ! That's when I picked blue strings off my back and shoulders ( still not knowing where they came from ) ??? Then I saw one on the beach ! That was when I realized what got me !!! 😵😵‍💫😳🤢

Bars

Won't kill you unless you have a bad reaction, but it sure won't feel great.

@@thenathanthomas just like a bee sting 🐝