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Petrified Palmwood, Central Louisiana gravels

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Petrified woodPetrified wood

Also reported: plus agatized wood.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Jon Sullivan (Public domain).

Why this spot

Oligocene Catahoula silicified wood

Petrified palmwood is the Louisiana state fossil.

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