Thread: The tale about "The German Hickory" Hone

I can't imagine wood petrifying in 8 years, but my college Geology elective, fascinating as it was, only taught me so much-loved that class and the subject in general. I was with my family in the Petrified National Forest in the summer of '11 on one of our big Western National Parks trips. I'll never forget the museum where huge wildly-colored pieces of it were polished to glass-like smoothness. I don't remember the exact geology of how it happens, the minerals involved, etc. I also remember driving all over Utah, which is a geologist's paradise, looking at all the fascinating rocks and wondering how they might work as hones.