What's the youngest age of petrified wood?

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I'm pretty sure it's over a day.

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Petrified Wood Age

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What's the youngest age of petrified wood?

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It depends on the wood. The oldest trees date back to the Devonian Period. So your specimen could be as old as 350+ million years. Of course, many of the plants back then were much different than modern day trees. It could be as young as a few million years old. If possible, you'd have to identify what type of petrified wood it is before you could determine the age.

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How Old Is Petrified Wood

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Experimental results in a hot spring in Japan show that samples of alder wood were silicified to about 40% by weight over a period of 7 years. They concluded that silicification under suitable temperature and water saturation conditions might take place over periods of tens to hundreds of years.
Here is the abstract of the article, published in "Sedimentary Geology", a peer-reviewed scientific journal (not associated with Creationists).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V6X-4CY050V-2&_coverDate=07%2F15%2F2004&_alid=424618807&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=5826&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=7d63aa12e9bcdb4e27417a95c4d7bfb1

Keep in mind that there are different processes involved in making petrified wood. Wood can undergo both permineralization, where the pores are being filled with a mineral precipitate, and replacement, where the wood itself is partially or completely replaced by minerals. Sometimes petrified wood has some parts of the original wood still remaining.

It is dangerous and incorrect to conclude that this rapid permineralization ALWAYS happens. Under the burial conditions of some silicified wood it would be unlikely to reach either the temperatures or the mineral concentrations of the water in this hot spring within a short period. Most petrified wood is buried under anoxic conditions that allow preservation of the wood long enough to let the silica or other mineral replacement process complete the replacement of the wood. However, like many geological processes, the time required to reach the ideal conditions for the process to initiate may be several orders of magnitude longer than the time it takes to complete the process. In other words, it might take thousands or millions of years before the hydrothermal conditions are right for wood to be petrified.

Here are some good photomicrographs of fossil wood:
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Campground/5660/palette.html

Here is a web page with nothing but links to petrified forests and permineralized plants:
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/palbot/preservation/permineralized.html

Be aware that anything coming from Anwersingenesis is basically untrue and based in incomplete and untrue representations of the factual evidence.

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Actually, there has been petrified wood found only a few hundred years old. In a wet environment, where there are rocks with minerals that can dissolve and be deposited, this can happen - particularly in mines. I've collected fossils most of my life and have found wooden beams in mines that have undergone the process of permineralization: they were petrified!

Answer 8

no, petrified wood cannot be 3.5 billion years old, as there would be any wood yet at that time to petrify.

3.5 billion years ago, the earth was only starting to form, it may still have been partially molten at the time. it is also very likely that any petrified object formed at this time would already have been remelted

Answer 9

Fossils (petrified wood is a type of fossil) can only be dated back as early as 50,000 years ago using carbon dating methods. Therefore, it is hard to say what the shortest timeframe is as we can't date back earlier than 50,000 years. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_record

The oldest is around 3.5 billion years old.

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Some modern wooden structures and posts have petrified in decades, casting doubt on any millions of years claims. People quote millions of years without there being adequate proof.

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Jeremy Dale and Roger Williams asked the same question. You should read the answers side by side.