Wiggins Fork Petrified Wood
 AKA: DeBois Petrified Wood










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Description of Physical Characteristics:

Color:  Wiggins Fork Petrified Wood has colors of red, brown, gray white and green.  Banding and wood grain is present.

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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
Wiggins Fork Petrified Wood is associated with the Wiggins Fork Formation of northwestern Wyoming..  Primarily occurs along Wiggins Fork River, Frontier Creek, Horse Creek, Burrow Creek, and many other creeks in the Absaraka Mountains of northwestern Wyoming.
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