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Petrified Wood Round Polished Hickory Yakima Canyon Washington
This lovely piece of Petrified Wood, Hickory, is a full "round" (bark all the way around), slabbed and polished on one side, natural rough on the back.
The Petrified Wood round is 4.83 inches long by 4 inches wide and .72 inch thick.
Yakima Canyon, Washington, is a scenic area along the Yakima River. The canyon walls reveal layers of ancient volcanic ash and petrified wood.
Approximately 17.5 million years ago during the middle of the Miocene epoch, a series of large volcanic eruptions began in the eastern part of the Columbia River Plateau, near the present day borders of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. When conditions were right, some of
these forests and swamps were buried by subsequent flows and the trees were preserved by silica dissolved from volcanic ash and the basalts. This happened several times during the 10 million years of volcanic eruptions, resulting in numerous deposits of fossilized wood across the Columbia Plateau.
The wood that came out of the canyon during the 60’s and 70’s is said to be some of the finest wood of all time when it comes to beauty, preservation, and taking a polish.
