Finding Museum Quality Petrified Wood in the Blue Forest

While in Wyoming, we had the opportunity to hunt for petrified wood in a fossil locality called the Blue Forest. During the hunt, we discovered the beautiful petrified wood log in this video. It took over 7 hrs to dig it up and although heavily weathered it produced some of the most striking petrified wood that I have ever personally found consisting of beautiful blue chalcedony quartz, yellow calcite crystals, and marble white quartz along the original rusty red wood grains. The Blue Forest is part of the Green River Formation and exists along the edge of the prehistoric Lake Gosuite some 52 million years ago. Wood along the lakes margin would have been buried by sediments and eventually fossilize into the incredible fossils we find today. I can't wait to return to Wyoming and discover more amazing pieces.

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