Finding Museum Quality Petrified Wood in the Blue Forest
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- While in Wyoming, we had the opportunity to hunt for petrified wood in a fossil locality called the Blue Forest. During the hunt, we discovered the beautiful petrified wood log in this video. It took over 7 hrs to dig it up and although heavily weathered it produced some of the most striking petrified wood that I have ever personally found consisting of beautiful blue chalcedony quartz, yellow calcite crystals, and marble white quartz along the original rusty red wood grains. The Blue Forest is part of the Green River Formation and exists along the edge of the prehistoric Lake Gosuite some 52 million years ago. Wood along the lakes margin would have been buried by sediments and eventually fossilize into the incredible fossils we find today. I can't wait to return to Wyoming and discover more amazing pieces.
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I’ve lived in Wyoming mostly all my life. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of the blue forest. So sick.. headed there my next days off from work
Did you have any luck!? We are uploading a new video from there soon!
Did you know Wyoming also has a huge volcanic field called Leucite Hills? Just north of Rock Springs and south of Farson. It has the second largest sand dunes in the world Killpecker ( I believe I read that somewhere) . Gem quality peridot can be picked off ant hills by Black Rock.
Nice video. Thank you for filling the hole back in!
I know this is an older video but it just happened to come across my feed. With that said you guys are about the only ones I’ve seen cover this area with respect to the rules and actually buried your dug holes back up! Well done and great finds! Wish other CZcams rockhounds followed suit, you guys are a class act, subscribed!
nice some really cool color , lots of work there , im not goin to complain about a long walk or a heavy bucket to carry on my rock hunts anymore lol , subscribed you
glad to see you filled in your hole!! So many dont bother and destroy the beauty of the land. Great finds!!
I can't say I've ever seen blue fossilized wood before--beautiful stuff! I have a piece of what I think is pine bark my Dad gave me, that's different shades of rust, brown and olive green--would have loved to have seen the piece of branch it came off of. The branch itself belonged to my Dad's brother, and it disappeared after his death, no telling what happened to his fossils. Still, I'm glad my Dad was interested enough in fossils to save that bit for me. You have some lovely pieces there!
Thanks, my Dad had an amazing collection of Bone Valley Megalodon teeth. But they were stolen along with his coin collection. Its a shame when things disappear. But I am glad your Dad saved that for you.
Who would be evil enough to do that, it would be awful if someone stole my fossils and coun collection
Wow you literally find the coolest things I did not know existed. I love this channel!
Added a public comment...I like your channel. Looking forward to more great content.
Dude! Joe is gonna be COOKED!
"We think it's a log....Whaddaya think, Joe?"
... "I think it's a log...."
how in the world did you even know where to look for that log? I love your channel, Im a total dinosaur nerd etc. keep them coming!
Wyoming is a great place to find Jurassic aged fossils (including dinosaur fossils) they have a whole place where there is a bunch of fossils on display and you can even go fossil hunting (their motto is that everything found there stays there and is shown to everyone) it is mostly the tourists who find the fossils apparently one person found a entire new species of theropod there
Beautiful, we tried to go last time we were nearby, but the blue Forrest is a huge area, do you have any advice on where specifically wishing that area we should look?
I have never dug to get a big piece, but my suggestion is find a place that someone has already dug and dig in or around it.
In the word chalcedony, the "h" is silent and the second "c" is a soft "c", like "s", and the accent is over the "ce".... so, it is "cal-sid-ohnee"
Hello, do you need some kind of permission to dig?
No it is BLM. You are restricted by weight. It’s is hard to find area in the middle of the Wyoming bad lands. Contact the Kemmerer Wyoming BLM office for more information. While you are there go to one of the quarry’s and hunt for fish fossils.
Wyoming is about 30% BLM land. It is all public and free to camp on, dig on unless there is a claim. The weight restriction for petrified wood is 25 pounds plus one log a day and 250 pounds a year per person. Cannot pick up vertebrae fossils on BLM land but on private land with the owners permission you can.
Why wouldnt you clean them and show them in the video?
Uh .... For the sake of correctness, the word CHALCEDONY is pronounced "Kal - Sidney."
We had that pointed out to us a few times, we feel embarrassed but now we know!
Looks like Joe did all of the digging.... what's this "we dug a hole" stuff?
It's pretty hard to dig a hole and film at the same time. (Trust me I've tried). But when the camera wasn't rolling, I was digging pretty intensely. We rotated shifts on this hole to give each other a break. 7 hrs of digging...
Nice video but 7 hours, 2 people and a tiny hole in the ground? It seems like you 2 snorkeling Floridians need more practice of digging dirt. Is the place full of holes?
People are supposed to respect the land and fill the holes they dig. If they don’t, they may not allow digging anymore.
I hope you’re kidding about the tiny hole. If you think that’s a tiny hole, you’ve never tried to dig a hole in the desert.
@@11chancer That shale is no joke. You are digging through 10% soil and 90% solid rock! Thanks for having our back!
How NOT to excavate a fossil.
Someone has never collected in the blue forest before lol
These aren’t fossils.
it's pronounced kal si dony