tsa-la-tsi-s-gi gv-do-di ka-ne
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tsa-la-tsi-s-gi gv-do-di ka-ne dance
- with - snake
DANCES
WITH SNAKES
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I Hear Jasper Calling My Name (Continued) After taking a few intrepid photos at the collecting spot, we headed over to another place Rob had arranged for us to visit. This is a friends place that has some rather unique petrified wood specimens. First off, we'll talk about the blue tube agate that was found here in a petrified wood log. A rather unusual and certainly rare occurrence for this particular locality.
You have to realize that some of this formation is due to Rob drooling over this thing for about a year now. I'd really like to see this after a bath in oxalic... The following pictures show the main attraction here at the farm. It happens to be one of the largest logs of petrified wood that has been seen from this locality. Somewhere in the estimated range of 40,000 lbs or so, this log is over four feet in diameter, and nearly thirty feet long. Although a portion of the tree is missing in the middle, it is still a complete log. Nearly another fifteen feet of the log was removed from the far end already. it seems an enterprising individual who wants to break it up and make fireplaces out of it bought the log and is slowly dismantling it... What a shame...
Although it may be hard to distinguish in this photo, the specimen above is 55,000,000 years old, and is not fully fossilized! The wood grain that you see is very much like the inside of a piece of driftwood that has been washed up on a beach. The fibers are so fine that breathing on them detaches the fibers, and they are easily rendered to dust at a touch. You would have to see it to believe it! The opposite side of the piece is fully mineralized!
More highly detailed petrified wood specimens.
Fortification? Maybe, maybe not!
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