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Limb Cast Polished Petrified Wood Collector Crooked River Oregon
This is a lovely limb cast polished petrified wood not quite perfect round (missing "bark" on the skinny edge) and it is slabbed and polished on one face, left natural rough elsewhere.
The polished stone face is 4.4 inches by 4.25 inches wide and .9 of an inch at its thickest.
It does have a scuff mark in the polish on the skinny corner (lower left side first picture-hard to capture with camera)!
It does not stand on its own.
This is from an old collection, self-collected probably in the 50's or 60's and labeled on the back.
This limb cast has many tiny tube-like green filaments. It is from the John Day Formation, South Fork of the Crooked River in Crook County, Oregon.
It is from the Oligocene epoch, about 33.9 million to 23 million years ago.
Petrified Wood formed when a tree died and was quickly buried by sediments. Minerals in the groundwater then permeated the wood, replacing the original organic matter and turning it to stone.
This is a “limb cast” as the wood decayed before the replacement occurred and so none of the characteristics of the original wood are present.
