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 The two on the bottom I'm quite sure are petrified wood.  Not sure about the large one on top.  Any ideas?

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Is that quartz or resin on the left side of this one?

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I can understand why you might think the specimen in the last photo is petrified wood. But I don't believe any of the pieces shown in the photos are. Hard to tell for sure.

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These rocks, especially phot #2 looks like gneiss.  This is just a fancy name to a metamorphic rock that has been pressurized, heated, and now looks like taffy.  Gneiss is just a subtype of one of the three types of rock.  Its pretty commons.

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Based on the close up photos:

Sample 1 is a Gneiss;

Samples 2, 3 & 4 are Sedimentary rocks.  # 2 & 3 are an iron rich mudstones and # 4 is a silty shale.

Nice samples to add to your rock collection.  Thanks for sharing with us.

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