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We recently have been doing work in my yard and have found this petrified wood as you can see some of it is as big as my foot.

azzow2 9 Feb 2
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Find your nearest monumental masons or high end kitchen fitters. Both should have equipment to cut/polish stone. Get them to cut and polish some half inch slices, see if you've got some nice grain/growth rings preserved.

Can I cut them with a tile saw or will that scar them?

@azzow2 a tile saw should be ok, but watch out - petrified wood from the southern US is usually amorphous silica - like flint, chert, agate etc. so really hard stuff. The cleaner you can cut, the easier the grinding/polishing will be. That's why I'd say take it to a mason, because they'll have better equipment.

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Jeez it must have a terrible fright to become so petrified....LOL.
We often find bits of petrified wood out the bush around here too since a lot of this area was once under the waters of a very ancient, shallow sea millions of years ago.

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As you probably are aware Arrow living in NM as we do, its not uncommon to find petrified wood all over New Mexico and Arizona. As the Mesozoic seas retreated on either side of the Rocky Mountain complex, large swaths of shallow marshes persisted as the inland ocean retreated.

I have 2 acres of land and often times after a rainstorm the petrified wood comes to the surface.

@azzow2. I find it all over the place. Even up in the Cibola Mtn. near me. Its practically ubiquitous out here.

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What a nutty world

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