I spent the early morning hours looking for petrified wood. It surprised me that the pieces I found had been tumbled by an ancient river so that they were rounded and covered with calcium carbonate so that many were cemented together in chunks. At the bottom of steep hills the individual rocks had eroded out of the matrix. I collected enough samples for students to crack open this fall.
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| Silicated rock, but is there petrified wood here? |
I spent the afternoon yesterday at the very fine Museum of Northern Arizona for the Hopi Festival. The permanent galleries were very well done, but my favorite exhibit was a retrospective of a contemporary Hopi artist. I'm going to a Hopi Festival back at the museum next, and then it's off to camp. I expect that the next time I post it will be from Utah.
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| Kiva by Michael Kabotie, Lomawywesa (Walking in Harmony) |
