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Petrified Palm Wood Stone Sphere Louisiana
This hand-cut Petrified Wood sphere is 2.15 inches or 55 mm in diameter.
This one has some tiny surface holes where the rods came through.
These trees either didn't completely petrify or decayed some before the petrification occurred.
It is made from polka dotted Petrified Palm Wood, Palmoxylon, from Louisiana.
This semiprecious stone material is the Oligocene-age "petrified wood" that is found in the Catahoula Formation, a sedimentary rock unit that was deposited on the alluvial plains and in the coastal swamps of the Oligocene Gulf Coast in Texas/Louisiana. At that time, the coastline was about 100 miles farther inland than it is today.
The petrified wood formed when a tree died and was buried by sediments. Minerals in the groundwater then permeated the wood, replacing the original organic matter and turning it to stone. The main mineral is silica, but trace elements in the silica create a variety of colors.
The stone contains prominent, rod like structures within the regular grain of the silicified wood, which form the characteristic spotted look of palm wood. Depending on how the stone is cut, these structures show up as spots, tapering rods or lines.
Metaphysical Properties of Petrified Palm Wood: This fossil gemstone is said to remove petty annoyances and enhance one's connection to earth and nature.
