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What is Petrified Wood? How Does it Form?
« on: April 29, 2018, 12:45:31 pm »
What is Petrified Wood?

Petrified wood is a fossil. It forms when plant material is buried by sediment and protected from decay due to oxygen and organisms. Then, groundwater rich in dissolved solids flows through the sediment, replacing the original plant material with silica, calcite, pyrite, or another inorganic material such as opal. The result is a fossil of the original woody material that often exhibits preserved details of the bark, wood, and cellular structures.

Some specimens of petrified wood are such accurate preservations that people do not realize they are fossils until they pick them up and are shocked by their weight. These specimens with near-perfect preservation are unusual; however, specimens that exhibit clearly recognizable bark and woody structures are very common.

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« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2018, 03:52:58 pm »
Trees that have had the sh*t scared out of them?
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Re: What is Petrified Wood?
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2018, 09:08:11 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on April 29, 2018, 03:52:58 pm
Trees that have had the sh*t scared out of them?

Those are the ones with white leaves....
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« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2018, 09:14:38 pm »
There's a Trump/Storm joke in here somewhere.
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« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2018, 09:20:27 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on April 29, 2018, 09:14:38 pm
There's a Trump/Storm joke in here somewhere.

...just dying to be left unsaid.  I hope Wings doesn't find this thread, or Frank wakes up from his bender....
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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2018, 09:22:22 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on April 29, 2018, 09:20:27 pm
...just dying to be left unsaid.  I hope Wings doesn't find this thread, or Frank wakes up from his bender....

I'm surprised at you.  You know it's common courtesy to ping someone when you talk about them.

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« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2018, 09:30:51 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on April 29, 2018, 09:22:22 pm
I'm surprised at you.  You know it's common courtesy to ping someone when you talk about them.

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I didn't on purpose, Miss Megaphone-mouth. 9999hair out0000

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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2018, 09:32:24 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on April 29, 2018, 09:30:51 pm
I didn't on purpose, Miss Megaphone-mouth. 9999hair out0000

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« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2018, 10:20:04 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on April 29, 2018, 09:20:27 pm
...just dying to be left unsaid.  I hope Wings doesn't find this thread, or Frank wakes up from his bender....

I have to report to the county lock up for a 10 day vacation starting at 7 am tomorrow.  The last thing on my mind is wood.
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« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2018, 10:26:29 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 29, 2018, 10:20:04 pm
I have to report to the county lock up for a 10 day vacation starting at 7 am tomorrow.  The last thing on my mind is wood.

That sounds uncommonly rational. 
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« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2018, 10:31:45 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on April 29, 2018, 09:30:51 pm
I didn't on purpose, Miss Megaphone-mouth. 9999hair out0000

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« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2018, 10:32:42 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 29, 2018, 10:20:04 pm
I have to report to the county lock up for a 10 day vacation starting at 7 am tomorrow.  The last thing on my mind is wood.

Nailed with Mopery with Intent to Creep again?
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« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2018, 10:37:09 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on April 29, 2018, 10:32:42 pm
Nailed with Mopery with Intent to Creep again?

More or less.  More Mopery and less creep.  But I got a dick for a PO.  So I was screwed from the get go.
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« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2018, 10:40:09 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 29, 2018, 10:37:09 pm
More or less.  More Mopery and less creep.  But I got a dick for a PO.  So I was screwed from the get go.

So petrified wood isn't on your list?
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« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2018, 10:44:51 pm »
Quote from: driftdiver on April 29, 2018, 10:40:09 pm
So petrified wood isn't on your list?

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« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2018, 11:07:17 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 29, 2018, 10:37:09 pm
More or less.  More Mopery and less creep.  But I got a dick for a PO.  So I was screwed from the get go.

That sucks.  You should have gotten my ex's PO.  She got thrown in the slammer once for refusing to pay my child support, and damn if her PO didn't put up the fine money to get her out.  The thousand or so bucks did wonders to assuage my pique.  (This is an actual, true anecdote.)
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« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2018, 11:11:25 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on April 29, 2018, 11:07:17 pm
That sucks.  You should have gotten my ex's PO.  She got thrown in the slammer once for refusing to pay my child support, and damn if her PO didn't put up the fine money to get her out.  The thousand or so bucks did wonders to assuage my pique.  (This is an actual, true anecdote.)

Was she hot?  Or was her PO a creeper?
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« Reply #18 on: April 29, 2018, 11:16:26 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 29, 2018, 11:11:25 pm
Was she hot?  Or was her PO a creeper?

The latter. She wasn't hot, but the PO definitely gave me the creeps.  He went to bat for her a couple of times against me, and I shut his old-ass down.  He wanted to get involved in renegotiating our custody arrangement and I asked him if he understood the word "standing" because I sure as crap did.  Then I 'splained it to his boss.
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« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2018, 11:18:36 pm »
Ouch.   
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« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2018, 11:41:44 pm »
My husband’s only 40. Better ask Melania  :rolling:
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« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2018, 11:50:16 pm »
Better petrified wood than absence of wood: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tree-gifted-by-france-goes-missing-from-white-house/ar-AAwv6nE?ocid=spartandhp

(Don’t worry. It’s just been removed to be replanted in the fall, when it has a better chance of survival.)
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