 Hello and welcome to the rugged rockhound today. I am rockhounding with my dad He was off in the trees over there looking already And we are going to try and find some petrified palm wood today We're looking for palm trees that were petrified roughly a hundred million years ago. I actually don't know the exact date I'll look it up and when I figure that out. I'll go ahead and put it in the video here But yeah, we're looking for some petrified palm wood. It looks a little different from regular wood in that it'll have large It's a large vascular system where it pulled a lot of water up So it has large cylinders that go through it that are where it used to draw the water So we're gonna look for pieces of that It rained a lot this past week. So the hope is that maybe we can find something on the surface Traditionally, that's not a good way to look here because most of the surface has been picked over You kind of want to dig but we're gonna go ahead and take a look see if we can find anything on the surface hike around right here and If we don't find anything on the surface then hopefully we'll find something digging But mostly we're gonna try and just find a good spot to dig and maybe we'll get lucky and find a little bit of palm wood on the surface Okay, I I don't believe this. Okay. I we're just next to the fire pit here I assume this place been searched, but I think because of the water that's been running down through this I think it uncovered something right here If that's a piece of wood that is big That might be palm wood, let's dig it up and see Okay, I just dug around it and pried it up. So my dad's gonna pull it out now That's a nice big piece if this is wood This is the biggest piece of palm wood. I've ever heard of coming out of here, and it's just sitting here It looks like it that that looks like the texture of wood I'm gonna try and get a part of it wet. Maybe and see if we can see the The pores that you expect to see in it so you can see We parked right there I've been here twice before first time. I was on that first hill The last time I was here, but I kind of followed the road all the way over there I just decided to park here because last time I was here Somebody else had parked here, and they were digging somewhere around here, and I was just wandering across it It's just right here And I really think this is Like I said, I'm gonna go get some water and wash it a little bit and see because if this is One heck of a find put a little bit of water on and you can really see the wood texture right there Very obvious That right there It's definitely the wood texture And I mean you can definitely see that texture right there. I Think my dad found his first piece that really looks like it You got that wooded texture on both sides, and it's a nice agate to color to good color to I went off in that direction and The layer kind of gets pinched off So what I think is going on is I think the layer is at an angle like this and here along this hillside Here and over that way It's more exposed and the layer I've been told is only about two feet thick so it's very thin So as you go this way start going up the hill and if it's angled like this then there's just this two-foot Thing that just kind of disappears So I think that's why most people search here is because this is Where it is much more exposed much better chance of actually finding something Anyway, I just found one right there, and it's a red one That See the wood texture in there Now of course at the end of the video I will take close-ups of these all washed off especially that big one. Yeah, stay Stay tuned for that big one after I wash it off. It could be amazing So we were over there We found that red that red piece of wood came back over here to where I found that big piece Just to look right here. There's a lot of agate That's just in layers here, and I'm guessing this is how it got up to the layer to get the wood And then when I was looking right here I found this little piece right here just a little piece of the kind of white petrified wood So I'm gonna look around here a little bit more in detail Okay, I found that little white piece up there and right here. I think I found another one right there Yeah, that's wood It's definitely wood That's pretty nice too Well, I dug for a little bit and then I hit that hard layer of white ash And decided I wanted to look around a little bit more on the surface I came down here and right there popped it right out of the surface Another nice little piece of wood Yeah, I'm just gonna look on the surface for a while I decided to come back over here Where I found that red one Just right here in the grass Hold that one out. That's pretty nice looking That wood texture right on the bottom I was searching down here and a few little teeny pieces just basically shards My dad's taking a look digging there But I found this one right here on the surface That one nice Right here Probably should dig at the base of one of these trees I came back with the shovel My dad started over there. I didn't see much dug there Looks like stuff maybe people have already gone through And then here I hit the little layer and look at that I don't know if you can see that in this This is beautiful All kinds of reds and other colors going through it You'll see it better when I get it washed off Maybe better in the shade I don't know You can see how it looks like wood right there Oh nice one. I'm excited. We're gonna dig My dad was taking a turn digging and he pulled that one out right there Beautiful We'll get all these washed off so Come over here Kind of get a feel for it So this white layer of ash is what you're looking for And we know we're in the unit because we start seeing all this coming out right there Yep, we're seeing all the we're breaking this apart That's the ash layer So you're digging in the right spot if you see that ash Okay, we've cleared away a bit. You can see we got the soil horizon Where it turns to clay right here and then the very bottom is the ash layer we're digging into We are gonna dig into this See if we find anything Okay, we've been expanding digging along and that fell out right there. Look at that piece Oh beautiful Oh, that'll look nice It's right there kind of in that clay layer. So just below the pop soil just before you get down to the white Right in the clays where it came out Decided to take a break from digging And I thought maybe I'll come over to the road Because roads are places that get washed out pretty good See if any of the washout had anything So for having found much though I found one tiny piece up there and then another tiny one down here This one was nice in that you can really see the little dots in it that are System that brings up the water From the roots. I don't know if you can see it Maybe you can see it. Maybe you can't you might just have to take a picture afterward I was walking up the hill right here and right there. I found one That looks like it's been sitting there for quite a while. You can see how it's been oxidizing and I'll turn Yep little piece that's been there a while Maybe we can find a few more Back that way is where we're parked. I walked along the hill Ridge line just taking a look and still see that smoke everywhere Well, I'm gonna head back Not finding a whole lot over here All right, we're parked right over there And over there is where we were digging I walked over this way just to see how far it went because I figured if we've got three layers of it on each of the hills Then there's probably a fault in each of the valleys So if the fault goes up Then it might jump and sure enough the layer was over there and here it is again jumping after the Probably the fault going through the middle layer so I came over here looking around and Didn't see anything for a while, but then I saw this one So we got a little piece right there Not that great We'll look around a little bit more here See if there's anything more Yeah, this is definitely a place that's been dug in the past Looks like I found something over here A little piece right there Huh Not another one right there I think these are limbs because look how it's just got a solid hole going through the middle But if they're palm trees, then they'd be palm fronds I'd be surprised if they preserved that well Just picked up a piece there that I didn't think was a piece of wood It kind of looked like it, but I wasn't sure but sure enough look in there. You can see little holes the vesicles Whatever they're called Yeah, okay Look around here a little bit more That one has some interesting look to it. Looks interesting color. Pulled it out right there. No, we're there. So I'm interested in colors to it and some nice little pockets in it. It almost looks opalized Yeah, we'll get a better look at it at home Okay, we've Walked a lot found a lot dug a bit It's about time to get out of here. So we're gonna head back And I'll go ahead and show you what we found. I think I'll start with washing off those big pieces and We'll video washing those off though. It should be pretty cool Okay, we made it back it's time to wash this thing off I'm excited. That's a big one and I I'm pretty sure it's what it looks like. It's amazing That is absolutely petrified wood Oh, look at that lions going through it Some of this didn't want to come off the pressure washer Some of that stuff is really caked on there Definitely wood. You can see the rings of the of the tree And it's supposed to be palm wood because that's what's in this area is palm wood I'm not seeing the palm pores in it What if this is part of the base of the tree by the roots? That's beautiful though. That's definitely wood Yeah, I can see the grains of the wood in here Kind of looks just like regular petrified wood That's what I'm not sure It's palm Although the area is palm wood That's what people go there for Okay, we washed off the big one. These are the three smaller ones. We dug out of that one hole We're gonna wash those off those pieces Those are nice These are beautiful pieces I'm gonna have to try and clean them off further. All right. Just finished cleaning all those bigger pieces off You saw that beautiful looking stuff. I'm gonna get better close-ups of all of those and I'll show you them here in just a minute And I'll clean off the smaller ones as well and show all those So I'm gonna go ahead and roll the montage of all the cool stuff. We just found All right, I hope you enjoyed all those beautiful specimens of wood One thing I didn't tell you is today is actually my birthday So the mountain gave me a present some beautiful pieces and a big one So I hope you really enjoyed this. It was a lot of fun. I found a lot of cool stuff and There is treasure everywhere. Remember that. I'll see you on the next video