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The varieties of wood from the Blue Forest include: maple, oak, palm, pine, poplar, sequoia, and sycamore. Also a good volume has been identified as pepper wood.
A couple features make this wood unique. One is that as the original wood decayed it left cavities which were later filled with quartz, chalcedony, and common opal which were a light blue color. This is where the name Blue Forest comes from. The other feature of the wood in this area is the greater than usual number of pieces that feature a full round cross section.
If you should ever go to the area, you might ask yourself, "Where's the forest?" because there is nothing there but rolling praire and sagebrush. The whole forest is two to three feet underground. You pick a spot and start digging, hoping to find something. If you get down three feet and don't find anything, it's time for a new hole. Or you could enlarge a hole left by someone else. You can only dig about three holes in a day. So, you can see your chances of finding something may be limited. If you go, good luck! Or, you could buy a piece here and save yourself a lot of time and money.
The first photo is the specimen taken under long wave ultraviolet light. These specimen fluoresce best under long wave UV light. The opal fluoresces white and the chalcedony fluoresces a light blue. Sometimes there is a little calcite present which fluoresces yellow. Any purple is the UV lights reflecting off the light colored areas of the specimen and are not fluorescence.
The photo below, of the specimen, was taken under short wave UV light. The colors are the same as long wave, just not as bright.
Be sure to check out the Wyoming, Blue Forest wood in the regular fossil section of the site under Wyoming wood. The item number will be the same as here without the trailing "F."
This specimen is no longer available. It was sold for $10.00.
Blue Forest limb cast
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Quantity in Basket:
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Code: WBF-107F
Price: $0.00
Shipping Weight: 1.00 pounds
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Time: Tertiary, approximately 58 million years ago.
Location: Wyoming, USA
Size 4-3/8" x 2-1/2" x 1"
<b>This specimen is no longer available. It has been sold.</b>
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