Fossilized Wood (Petrified Wood)
Silicified Wood (primarily quartz/chalcedony replacing organic matter)
Category
Browse sedimentary (with some aspects of mineral replacement) specimens identified by the Rock Identifier community.
Fossilized Wood (Petrified Wood)
Silicified Wood (primarily quartz/chalcedony replacing organic matter)
Sandstone (Painted)
Arenite (primarily SiO2)
Wood Jasper
Siliceous sedimentary rock (variety of Chert/Chalcedony)
Pyrite
Iron Sulfide (FeS2)
Fossilized Shell Fragment
Bivalvia or Gastropoda (Class) fragment
Bivalve Fossil (Clam)
Class Bivalvia (e.g., Exogyra or Gryphaea species)
Blue Chalcedony
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Pyrite
Iron Disulfide (FeS2)
Fossil tooth
Mineralized vertebrate tooth; exact animal and species cannot be determined from the image
Shark Tooth Fossil
Chondrichthyes (class) fossilized tooth
Petrified Wood
Silicified wood (SiO2)
Fossil Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes (Class)
Shark Tooth Fossil
Vertebrate fossilized tooth
Chert
Chert (Microcrystalline Quartz, SiO2)
Polished brecciated jasper (likely septarian or iron-rich jasper)
Microcrystalline quartz (chalcedony), SiO₂, with iron oxides and possibly calcite or other rock fragments
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Jasper
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Stromatolite
Laminated biogenic sedimentary structure (Cyanobacteria)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Fossiliferous shale or mudstone with plant fossils
Carbonaceous mudstone/shale containing fossilized foliage, likely fern or seed-fern impressions
Pyrite
Iron Sulfide (FeS2)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (primarily SiO2 - Silicon Dioxide)
Bivalve Fossil (Clam)
Class Bivalvia (e.g., Mercenaria or similar genus)
Fossil Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes tooth fossil
Chert (Chalcedony/Agate variety)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Red Jasper
Jasper (Silicon Dioxide, SiO2 with iron oxide impurities)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Petrified Wood
Silicified wood (SiO2 - Silicon Dioxide)
Bivalve Fossil (Clam)
Class Bivalvia (e.g., Mercenaria or similar genus), composed of CaCO3 (Aragonite/Calcite)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (primarily SiO2)
Petrified Wood
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) permineralized organic matter
Sand Tiger Shark Tooth
Carcharias taurus
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (primarily SiO₂)
Fossilized Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes (class) fossilized tooth
Shark Tooth Fossil
Vertebrate fossilized tooth (various genera such as Carcharodon, Otodus, or Negaprion)
Chert (Jasper)
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Chert (Vuggy or Fossilliferous)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Otodus)
Otodus obliquus
Iron-stained chert (flint) nodule
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂), with iron-oxide staining
Rhodonite
Manganese Silicate (Mn,Fe,Mg,Ca)SiO3
Stromatolite
Biogenic sedimentary structure (Stromatolite)