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Live Oak County Gravels (petrified palm wood), TX

Petrified wood site Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Petrified woodPetrified wood

Also reported: agatized wood.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: Oligocene Catahoula/Frio petrified palm and wood in gravels

South Texas gravels are a documented source of Texas state stone petrified palmwood in rockhounding literature.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Heat, snakes, private land

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