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Petrified Wood Polished Round McDermitt Disaster Peak Nevada
This is a gorgeous polished full round ('bark" all the way around-except on small spot bottom left corner)) of Petrified Wood from Disaster Peak near McDermitt, Nevada (that is written on the back of it!).
The natural Petrified Wood piece is polished on the top, natural rough on the bottom and it is 4.6 inches and by 3.3 inches wide and 1/2 of an inch at its thickest.
It does have some natural fracture lines.
McDermitt Petrified Wood is found in the Trout Creek Formation, and is from the Miocene epoch, about 15 million years old.
High quality Petrified Wood is found on Disaster Peak, to the southwest of McDermitt. Disaster Peak was named after an 1864 confrontation between prospectors and the Paiutes.
McDermitt is a small remote little town in northern Nevada that straddles the Nevada/Oregon state line along Hwy 95. The McDermitt petrified wood area is a desolate sagebrush desert that spans over 100 square miles on the Oregon/Nevada border. 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 along the state line.
Much of it is BLM land and is still open to rockhounding today.
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.
