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Petrified Wood Polished Ribbon Wood Slab Yakima Washington
This small and very pretty polished slab of Petrified Wood is From the Columbia Plateau Basalt Flow in the Yakima area of Washington and from the Miocene Epoch.
It is slabbed and polished on one side, 3.5 inches by 1.9 inches and .29 of an inch thick, and it is translucent in some areas!
It is an unusual Taxodioxylon found in flattened sections with nearly parallel growth rings and uniform, diamond-shaped agate inclusions. The local collectors called it “ribbon wood” because they thought the thin polished slices look like decorative ribbons. It is likely that the buried wood underwent considerable compression, causing the tracheid alignment to buckle into diamond-shaped voids that later infilled with chalcedony.
Metaphysical Properties of Petrified Wood: Petrified Wood in general is said to be a stone of patience, and slow and steady growth. It is believed that Petrified Wood can help one overcome limiting emotional patterns handed down through one's ancestors.
