Where To Find Petrified Wood In Arkansas

Apparently near there there are petrified wood including palm jaspers banded chert quartz and some opalized wood opal veins.

Where to find petrified wood in arkansas.

Discovered some petrified wood while camping this last weekend. Most people are familiar with famous petrified wood occurrences such as the petrified forest national park in arizona. Petrified wood silicified petrified wood is present in quaternary gravel deposits in eastern and southern arkansas. Our secret private campsite at ruby mountain.

It is quite easy to find petrified wood in arkansas but there is no actual petrified forest like what you see in arizona. Turn at bucksnort on cr 131 east or on cr 101 east. Here is a description from the travel channel website. To find out more about arkansas fossils check on the following references.

Because most specimens are cream to white in color little interest has been expressed by hobbyists in cutting and polishing the material. North of fordyce on arkansas hwy 8. About 25 years ago i found a chunk of petrified wood in my backyard in north little rock but i suspect that it was from someplace else and a former owner left it or buried it there. We went camping in the arkansas river valley across from mt antero princeton and shivano.

Petrified wood like other fossils forms when minerals replace the organic material that makes up an organism in this case a tree. It was a muddy camp trip because of the monsoonal moisture but that heavy rain helped cool it off in the evenings making for great camp sleeping.