Petrified wood from Beach

[JIMMFinsman]

Found this little piece during a beach walk in lower Delaware. About the 3rd I've seen like this. 

[hemipristis]

The likely source of this is the Columbia Fm in New Castle and Kent Counties.  I have found several hundred pounds of the stuff which I've recovered from a housing project in New Castle, including a 200-pounder that adorns my late parents' front garden.

 

The current thought is that the wood is actually Cretaceous in age, with the gradual silicification having been accentuated once buried in the Pleistocene Columbia Fm sands and gravels, which represent glacial outwash.

[JIMMFinsman]

Wow that's amazing. 

[Rockwood]

Wood is often like that common or absent. Where the tree goes, so goes the forest. 

[Mark Kmiecik]

15 hours ago, Rockwood said:

Where the tree goes, so goes the forest. 

 

I wasn't aware it got around much. 

[Rockwood]

34 minutes ago, Mark Kmiecik said:

 

I wasn't aware it got around much. 

They all gona go when the volcano blow.