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Saddle Mountains Petrified Wood, WA
Petrified wood site Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Petrified wood
OpalAlso reported: agatized wood.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Jon Sullivan (Public domain), Dpulitzer (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: petrified wood in Miocene Columbia River Basalt interbeds (Ginkgo flow region)
Documented petrified wood collecting on BLM/DNR land in the Saddle Mountains, near the famous Ginkgo deposits.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Remote, no water, heat, snakes
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