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Petrified Wood Polished Rock Round Saddle Mountain Washington
This is a gorgeous polished full round ('bark" all the way around) of Petrified Wood from Saddle Mountain, Washington.
The natural Petrified Wood slab is 6 inches and by 4.4 inches wide and 1/2 inch thick.
This one must have been in water as there appears to be fossilized algae around part of it. It also had some wood rot away in the center, and though those areas didn't petrified, it has open crystal vugs in those areas!
This petrifies wood is from an old collection, self-collected somewhere in the 40's to 70's and it has the words "Saddle Mtn., Wash" written on the back.
Saddle Mountain Petrified Wood is found in the Columbia River Basalt Formation in Grant County, Washington.
Much of the petrified wood found at Saddle Mountain is distorted stumps. Complete rounds are rarer, particularly in larger sizes.
From the Miocene epoch of the Cenozoic era, about 15 million years old.
This petrifies wood is from an old collection, self-collected somewhere in the 40's to 70's.
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.
