I am looking for the definition of the term ';parent geologic formation'; in reference to petrified wood.

Must find out and determine if possible the ';parent geologic formation'; of a particular piece of petrified wood that I found.I am looking for the definition of the term ';parent geologic formation'; in reference to petrified wood.
the parent geological formation determines the type of the petrified wood.. Often found in Tertiary formations which is 65 million years ago to present in the geological time line.


Petrified wood , Fossilized wood the same thing


quartz group , agateized wood, with the mineralization of jasper'


chalcedony and less frequently opal. It consists of silicon dioxide only. ..


May I suggest you type into your search engine ';petrified wood or fossilized wood and the area you found the piece';





Here is a link I feel will help


http://www.mashell.com/~estrauss/pwoodfx鈥?/a>





This site has geology identification aids lots more


Hope this helps This gentleman has been studying and collecting for yearsI am looking for the definition of the term ';parent geologic formation'; in reference to petrified wood.
never heard the this term for petrified wood. Seems a little illogical.You can have parental magma, which is the magma from which an igneous rock was formed and parent elements when referring to radioactive decay. But the parent to petrified wood was not a geological formation or rock.





try here, maybe I missed something.


http://www.iseg.giees.uncc.edu/dictionar鈥?/a>
I have never heard the term ';parent geologic formation';, but parent usually refers to the source rock (or atom or whatever else) and daughter refers to the final rock. I assume that the original geologic formation contained the wood which was then reworked into another environment.