Petrified Wood in Texas

I explored the catahoula formation, which runs all the way from south texas to east texas, it has some really interesting geology. Including petrified wood that formed in a very rich silica environment creating interesting peices. As well as uranium that is found in ash deposites and has been mined in south texas, hopefully I can explore that at some point too.
in this video I found some petrified wood which had been agatized/opalized, it is a really interesting geologic process where silica injects itself and forms minerals in the wood grains preserving the peice.
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[@2299jsimon]

That is cool...

[@thenathanthomas]

Thank you

[@Bigfoot903Outdoors]

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

[@thenathanthomas]

@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!

[@smokethirteen]

Fossilized wood was created from the great flood

[@thenathanthomas]

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.