Rockhounding Petrified Wood in East Texas
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- Опубликовано: 20 фев 2023
- Every rock hounder’s dream! What started as a metal detecting trip to East Texas turned into an amazing opportunity to collect some beautiful petrified wood and more for my lapidary projects. Enjoy!
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What a cool hunt, awesome finds Scott!
Thanks for watching one of my older videos Mike, I appreciate it!
Ahh, you found the treasure! I have buckets of that from my Husband’s family farm. There are a few whole logs there that came up when his great uncles dredged a pond. I was looking at them and said it looks like something blasted , knocked them down and burned them for a bit and then they were covered with sand. A few months later, I read about the Chicxulub Meteor that wiped out the Dinosaurs. It hit the Yucatán peninsula which had volatile gasses and exploded them all the way into the stratosphere. I had a geologist tell me petrified wood only happened in volcanic areas. I said there is only sand and no volcanic rock . They were petrified by the silica of the sand after 15 to 30 foot waves from the blast covered them. ( there is a video reenactment of it on YT ). It shows central Texas as a bay that shoots up towards Dallas. The Texas coast was also more inland toward Victoria. He then said “ok, now I’m interested. I hope he’s checking it out.
I find most of it slightly harder than just quartz. So plan for more time In stage one especially the translucent pieces.
Thanks Sylvia for all the interesting information, I appreciate it! I missed you at the shop today. I was checking out some of the rock that’s now available.
Great find! Love that PW
Thanks Ronald! I love it as well.
Thats cool! I will be visiting friends in Texas later this year. My first time to TX
Welcome to Texas! I hope you find some cool rocks.
I am jealous! Lol
We are lucky when it comes to pet wood, that’s for sure!
Texas roadsides have been one of my most productive areas. I am surprised you picked up 2 agates…East Texas has loads of petrified wood but is light on agates. Great day! Some of that wood will color nicely tumbled. I am currently finishing tumbling my favorite little chunk of fossilized wood that I found on the Nueces in that area you did an earlier video on. The banding and colors are really nice. I wish I could get out to that spot more than once a year. Looking forward to seeing what you do with your treasures.
Thanks so much Peter! I hope yours turns out great. I have a couple of new tumbling videos about to be finished so stay tuned…..
Fantastic petrified wood finds! Those will be incredible polished up. I was so excited to see a rockhounding video today. We're having another cold snap in MT right now, so thank you Scott! Looking forward to seeing these beauties again.✌️🤠🤘
Thank you Kyla! I’ve got some tumbling now so stay tuned.
nice! i cant wait to see those agates all done up as well as the pw. i liked the video
Thank you so much Karen! The agates are already tumbling and I’ll start the wood soon so stay tuned.
I appreciate your rockhounding adventures. We have plans on visiting Austin and San Antonio in early April. I think I have a handle on the location along the Nueces, but I could use a tip on safe access to the Llano River. The video above was awesome, thank you!
Thanks so much for watching Lynn! I hope you find lots of goodies in April. You’ll have no issues accessing the Llano river from downtown Llano. There are several options. Good luck!
Thanks. I think I found the perfect place to put in!
Great video, Awesome PW finds. Question Scott: What came first metal detecting or Rockhounding 🙂
Hi Kenneth, thanks for watching. I’ve been detecting much longer. In fact I bought my first tumbler just to help clean my finds. It was only after several years that I decided to try my luck with rocks! 😁
@@spwinaustin Hey Scott, same for me. Always hoping to find a treasure of gold or rocks. My whole family loves your channel. More more more 😀
Hey Scott...if you ever want to sell any of those pieces, polished or raw, I would love to buy some from you. Just let me know your price including packaging and shipping. Great video!!!
Hey Clenton, thanks so much for the offer, I’ll keep it in mind. Right now I’m not set up to sell anything but someday I probably will. I have a couple of videos in the works which will show those stones getting tumbled. They should be done soon 🤞.
What county were you in? I’ll be in Montgomery next week
Hi, thanks for watching! I’m not sure what county but I was close to the town of Crockett. Good luck!
Hi where is this? I am in southeast texas.
Hi, thanks for watching. That was just outside of Crockett as I recall.
I'm just north of crocket myself I'd love to make a trip out there and try and find me some. I wouldn't know where to begin though lol don't know the are very well
@@Bigfoot903Outdoors Start by exploring dirt roads in the area, especially after a good rain.