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Petrified Wood Polished Rock Hubbard Basin Nevada
This is a gorgeous highly agatized wood chunk that has been polished on one face, natural rough on the edges and back.
The natural Petrified Wood piece is 6.5 inches and by 4 inches wide and 1.34 inches at its thickest.
It does not stand on its own.
It is from the lower Miocene and about 16.1 million years old.
This is Petrified Wood from the Jarbidge Rhyolite Formation in Elko County, Nevada, in an area known as Hubbard Basin.
Petrified Wood is relatively scarce from this region, but it is some of the best agatized wood to be found. This variety of petrified wood is characterized by its white-blue sometimes translucent chalcedony, often enhanced by red, orange, yellows or tan and dark brown patterns.
Most specimens from this location are petrified spruce trees or larger conifers with excellent growth ring preservation.
It is from the lower Miocene and about 16.1 million years old.
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.
