 Hello and welcome once again to the rugged rockhound today. We are out here in a wash Got a new friend here. Scott with his family. Say hi everybody He found a bone So in this wash we are looking for things like petrified wood That's what it says in the book. So I don't know how much there is. I don't know how much we'll find I don't know if we'll find other things traditionally if you find petrified wood you'll also find Agates jaspers things like that. Yeah, it's been a little while since been out rockhounding I'm so excited to finally be out again. It's the day after Christmas. So we're gonna Search this wash. Hopefully find something Hopefully some petrified wood Maybe something else. I don't know I'll bring you back in when we find our first specimen Here's the first little find I think Just a little bit of calcite. I'm not gonna keep it, but it's interesting and a little bit of weathered calcite here So Scott's found this cool little iron concretion that probably came out of sandstone Sometimes have these really funny shapes where the iron kind of helps fill in these kind of breaks inside of it Which give it that weird funny shape if you think about that as like cracks that were in it And it kind of filled in the cracks They're pretty cool looking things though. They can have some cool forms too So it looks like you found a really cool rock here that looks like uids So uids are basically little pieces of shell that get rolled into these spheres at the edges the ocean and stuff like that, so This is really cool, but these have a lot of iron in them That is a pretty cool rock. Those are some really cool little uids in there So Scott just picked this up Now it's kind of hard to tell because it's so dirty. I'll get it back and cleaned off and Hopefully be nice to get cut at some point. It's a little too big for my little saw But it looks like either a travertine or Potentially an agate that's dark colored So we're gonna cut it, but I think it's travertine personally. Here's this one that Scott found cut open Okay, interesting. So yeah, you've got the travertine up here It's kind of a dark kind of a root beer color and then the base of it that it's grown off looks like a sandstone, so Interesting looks like we've got some more travertine here So you can see these little it almost looks like what you call stromatolites, but it's really layers of Calcite deposited by a hot spring over time and sometimes it'll form these almost Stalactites all stuck together So that's what that is So that we've been walking a while Kind of the main thing we're seeing a lot of is travertine with sandstones and mud stones, which is show so a Lot of that stuff. The travertine is kind of neat No petrified wood yet though Maybe I'll take home one of these little iron concretions and cut it open just to see what it looks like inside So here's that little iron concretion cut open and it turned out to be just hollow in the inside and it just shattered Yeah, not much to show there So here I am getting ready to show you things that cut open and I just want to take a moment and show you It snowed. We got a big snowstorm this week. We got another one coming this weekend So there is a pretty darn good chance that I will not be able to get out rock hunting in for quite some time It'll depend on the weather, but we got a lot of snow going on right here That is gypsum satin spar So I got this nice little rock, too It's a little larger and it's small enough that I can cut it nicely So I think I'll take this one home and cut it open get a better look at these things Change the angle of the camera because of the lighting Hopefully this is better. So here's this cut open. It's kind of that You know, it looks like it's shells or oolites or eulitic something or whatever. So here it is cut open So there's there's travertine that you see up here, which is a hot spring deposit of calcite And then there's what looks like eulitic limestone But as far as I can see here, this looks more like travertine So I'm gonna say that's what that is So Scott went ahead and found this nice little one with a clamshell. So we've been seeing a lot of Rocks with little shell fossils in it, but they usually Boister shells they don't look very good. This is the best looking one so far with the nice Trying to think the word but yeah, it's a clamshell and we're back at the vehicle after searching the wash from about there to there Get a pretty good feel for what's there. It's not a whole lot. There's travertine sandstones shells And I didn't see any petrified wood. So we're gonna go further up and So we can find up there. So here we are at another spot coming up much closer now to the mountains in the back So I'm hoping maybe getting closer to the mountains. We'll get more options down here So we'll check down here in this other spot and I forgot to say, oh, you know GPS coordinates to the first spot But it's just basically when you come up. It's the first bridge But here's the GPS coordinates to where we're parked right now, and I'm hoping we'll find better stuff here than what we were finding there made it down Surprise surprise. It looks just like this stuff from the other area. I Thought it would mostly look the same, but maybe it'll give us a few other options Now that's interesting. So that's an impression in the sandstone of what would have been a branch of an interesting tree that may have been a tropical tree I don't know. That's a really cool texture though So I'll have to look at that closer, but I'm pretty sure that's a branch of some kind of a tropical tree Here's this one cut open. It looks like travertine or shells. So Hmm It looks like it may be calcite forming around shells So depending on when that occurred It could be eulitic, but I don't think so. I think this is probably still kind of more of a hot spring But maybe there's shells there hmm difficult one to Determine I'll have to probably look at it more closely and we made it back to the vehicle. So that's this area There's not a whole lot So he went and checked on there and this area wasn't even as good as that first area Oh, and I didn't quite give you the GPS for that. So here's the GPS for that area So some interesting stuff not the greatest the the woods were kind of interesting the travertine was interesting the The iron concretions. So if you want to come out here, I'd look for those I wouldn't bother with really trying to find petrified wood because any petrified wood you do find because there's no Agatization or a jasper anything like that. It's probably just gonna be that brittle wood that just shatters. So Yeah Anyway, that's this area remember there's treasure everywhere, but some areas are better than others