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Petrified Wood Polished Limb McDermitt Oregon
Lovely, polished on one end, limb or branch of Petrified Wood found in Owyhee County, Oregon.
The Petrified Wood limb is 1.74 inches by 1.53 inches and 2 inches long.
This piece is natural rough on the edges and slightly ground on the bottom so it does stand.
It is lightened in the last picture to see detail.
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. The main mineral is silica, but trace elements in the silica create a variety of colors.
McDermitt Petrified Wood is found in the Trout Creek Formation, and is from the Miocene epoch, about 15 million years old.
McDermitt is a small remote little town in Nevada.
The McDermitt petrified wood area straddles the Nevada/Oregon state line along Hwy 95 and is a desolate sagebrush desert that spans over 100 square miles. It is one of the best rockhounding sites in the western U.S. Beautiful petrified wood, with well-preserved wood structure, as well as a variety of other minerals, are found in both Nevada and Oregon.
Much of it is BLM land and is still open to rockhounding today.
This petrified wood piece is from the Kirkby collection and was self-collected sometime in the 1930's to the 1960's.
