Where To Find Petrified Wood In Arkansas

About 25 years ago i found a chunk of petrified wood in my backyard in north little rock but i suspect that it was from someplace else and a former owner left it or buried it there.

Where to find petrified wood in arkansas.

Most people are familiar with famous petrified wood occurrences such as the petrified forest national park in arizona. To find out more about arkansas fossils check on the following references. We also have this curious fossil in arkansas. Because most specimens are cream to white in color little interest has been expressed by hobbyists in cutting and polishing the material.

Quarternary gravel deposits that cover much of the area yield some cuttable petrified wood in the northeastern part of the state and sparse mastodon and mammoth remains. Apparently near there there are petrified wood including palm jaspers banded chert quartz and some opalized wood opal veins. Discovered some petrified wood while camping this last weekend. North of fordyce on arkansas hwy 8.

Here is a description from the travel channel website. Our secret private campsite at ruby mountain. It was a muddy camp trip because of the monsoonal moisture but that heavy rain helped cool it off in the evenings making for great camp sleeping. Petrified wood silicified petrified wood is present in quaternary gravel deposits in eastern and southern arkansas.

It is quite easy to find petrified wood in arkansas but there is no actual petrified forest like what you see in arizona. Petrified wood like other fossils forms when minerals replace the organic material that makes up an organism in this case a tree.