JohnJ Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 The Winner of the July 2010 Invertebrate/Plant Find Of The Month is the Fire opal replaced petrified wood from Miocene strata in Nevada, USA! Congratulations again to Yinan (veomega) on a jewel-like find that edged ahead of an amazing trilobite to complete a SWEEP of the July contests! Thank you to the others that shared their finds with the Forum. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossildude19 Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Yinan, A clean sweep for you this month! Congratulations on this beauty, as well. Regards, Tim - VETERAN SHALE SPLITTER VFOTM --- APRIL - 2015 IPFOTM -- MAY - 2024 _________________________________________________________________________________ "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." John Muir ~ ~ ~ ~ ><))))( *> About Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fossilcollector Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Thank you everyone for voting! I'll have better pictures up soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roz Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 I love that fossil... Welcome to the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritageFossils Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Here are a few more pictures: Next fossil auction: June 6th, 2010 - Beverly Hills, CA http://historical.ha.com/NaturalHistory/ Check out our auctions and past auctions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nandomas Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Here are a few more pictures: Congrats Veomega... well deserved Erosion... will be my epitaph! http://www.paleonature.org/ https://fossilnews.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamalama Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Great fossil and definitely worthy! Congrats! -Dave __________________________________________________ Geologists on the whole are inconsistent drivers. When a roadcut presents itself, they tend to lurch and weave. To them, the roadcut is a portal, a fragment of a regional story, a proscenium arch that leads their imaginations into the earth and through the surrounding terrain. - John McPheeIf I'm going to drive safely, I can't do geology. - John McPheeCheck out my Blog for more fossils I've found: http://viewsofthemahantango.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeD Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Awesome that you got both categories. Congrats. Love that opal wood! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted August 7, 2010 Author Share Posted August 7, 2010 Yinan, the extra photos are incredible; what a find. The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikerboyzx6r Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Wow, the other photos are incredible! Well done!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Dactyll Posted August 7, 2010 Share Posted August 7, 2010 Veomega..... Congratulations.... Very nice find..... Cheers Steve... And Welcome if your a New Member... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pleecan Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 Congratualtions on that super find! Colors are just beautiful.... PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeroMike Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Not trying to flame anyone on this but can you please explain how you found the fish in Idaho and the very next day, over 700 miles away you find a piece of opal in Nevada. Do you have your dates wrong? and also, I am still trying to learn here so please bear with me, but how do you know this is petrified wood? I think it looks really nice but I can not tell how it is pet. wood. If it is, it looks totally different from pet. wood i have found (course mine is not opal, lol). " This comment brought to you by the semi-famous AeroMike" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeritageFossils Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Hi AeroMike! Veomega here, responding under my work screenname. Good questions are always welcomed! So our spot in Idaho to Denio NV is 534 miles, not 700. After collecting for an afternoon in Idaho, we headed south. Since the nearest decent hotel to Denio is in Burns, OR, we stopped there for the night around midnight. So that's 400 miles. The next morning, we left around 5:30 am to get to the opal site by 8 am. Rainbow Ridge, the opal place, only quarries fresh material at 8 am, so you have to be there or you'll end up just hunting spoil piles. Roadtrip pics here: http://thefossiladdict.livejournal.com/ As for how you can tell its pet wood; essentially all the opal at the site is wood replaced by opal. And this piece still has texture from the bark of the petrified wood, if you saw it in person you could tell it's a complete round. -YvW Next fossil auction: June 6th, 2010 - Beverly Hills, CA http://historical.ha.com/NaturalHistory/ Check out our auctions and past auctions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AeroMike Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Hi AeroMike! Veomega here, responding under my work screenname. Good questions are always welcomed! So our spot in Idaho to Denio NV is 534 miles, not 700. After collecting for an afternoon in Idaho, we headed south. Since the nearest decent hotel to Denio is in Burns, OR, we stopped there for the night around midnight. So that's 400 miles. The next morning, we left around 5:30 am to get to the opal site by 8 am. Rainbow Ridge, the opal place, only quarries fresh material at 8 am, so you have to be there or you'll end up just hunting spoil piles. Roadtrip pics here: http://thefossiladdict.livejournal.com/ As for how you can tell its pet wood; essentially all the opal at the site is wood replaced by opal. And this piece still has texture from the bark of the petrified wood, if you saw it in person you could tell it's a complete round. -YvW Awesome! thanks a lot for explaining it to me. You see, I am an engineer and I crunch numbers and my wife says I operate on my own wave length, lol. I'll give you an example, we were looking at the huge pine tree that looked like a large maple tree (branches simulated those of the maple) it was a neat looking tree and my wife askled what I was thinking. I answered her honestly and I told here I was using Pythagora's Theorem, you know A squared + B squared = C squared, anyhow, that is how I think and I was hoping you didn't take it the wrong way is all. Also, thanks for the info on the opal pet wood, that is really cool, I did not know that. " This comment brought to you by the semi-famous AeroMike" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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