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Petrified Wood Round Polished Yakima Canyon Washington
This is a piece of Petrified Wood that is slabbed and polished (but not very well) on one side, natural rough on the back.
It is perfect for recutting into cabochons!
The Petrified Wood piece is 6 inches long by 4.3 inches wide and 1 inch a its thickest.
There are some surface "fractures", and small rough spots.
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.
More petrified hardwoods are found here and the rings, rays and pores are usually well preserved. 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.
