🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Piece of petrified wood?

[savinghistoryalway.s]

I found it on the creek bed next to a creek in Atlanta where there was heavy fighting during the American Civil War

 

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I found it on the creek bed next to a creek in Atlanta where there was heavy fighting during the American Civil War

More info please, I see what appears to be a splinter coming off of your "specimen", can you dig into this object with a knife blade and remove more "splinters"?

Is it hard like a rock or soft?

 

[savinghistoryalway.s]

More info please, I see what appears to be a splinter coming off of your "specimen", can you dig into this object with a knife blade and remove more "splinters"?

Is it hard like a rock or soft?

It’s hard and yeah I’m able to remove some more splinter

 

[AU Seeker]

It’s hard and yeah I’m able to remove some more splinter

OK, If it is petrified wood, it would be wood that has over 1000s of years turned into rock, so if it's petrified wood it can chip with enough pressure but not splinter.

 

[ColorfulCreator]

Half petrified?

 

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Half petrified?

Nope, doesn't work that way.

 

[ColorfulCreator]

Nope, doesn't work that way.

Are telling me the petrification process cannot be interrupted? This site says it takes 5-10 thousand years to petrify. Maybe it was pushed out of the sea on a wave after only 2500 years.https://www.fossildesign.it/en/how-... the petrification,just 5,000 to 10,000 years.

 

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Are telling me the petrification process cannot be interrupted? This site says it takes 5-10 thousand years to petrify. Maybe it was pushed out of the sea on a wave after only 2500 years.https://www.fossildesign.it/en/how-is-fossilized-wood-formed#:~:text=How long does the petrification,just 5,000 to 10,000 years.

Never said that couldn't happen...BUT any piece of wood that didn't fully petrify, the part that wasn't turned to stone would of rotted away centuries ago.