| The material from Lenwood is really scarce and it is called "Lenwood
Blue" because of the locality and color highlights. Lenwood was a
very small village (with a railroad siding) just to the west of
Barstow, California. The discovery of this site goes back to the
1940s when a traveling salesman (a person who visited shoe stores
and took orders for one of the major American shoe manufacturers)
stopped near the village for the night to camp in the desert. While
scratching around to make a firepit he uncovered some small limbs of
what we now know as "Lenwood Blue". He was an occasional rockhound
and he collected what he could find and took it with him the next
day to sell to a Los Angeles Rock Shop. He made no attempt to keep
the locality a secret and rockhounds visited the site over the years
and collected a small quantity of small limbs. Old Timers who knew
the site talked about that anything more than 100 or 200 pounds of
petrified wood was ever produced from the site. |
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versteinertes Holz
(Wacholder; Juniperus sp.) mit fantastischer Färbung
wird von Sammlern in den USA als "Lenwood
Blue" bezeichnet
4,3 x 10 cm
Miozän
Lenwood, San Bernardino County, Kalifornien / USA
extrem seltenes Holz von einer längst
ausgebeuteten Fundstelle
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