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Petrified Wood Polished Round Stump Escalante UtahÂ
This rare and beautiful polished round stump of Yellow Cat Petrified Wood piece is 4.6 inches by 4.6 inches and slanted from 1 to 2 inches thick.
This is a complete round with "bark" all the way around EXCEPT for the corner just below the white quartz.
It is sliced and polished on one face and rough on the bottom.
Yellow Cat Petrified Wood is from the Thompson Uranium/Vanadium District, Grand County, in eastern Utah.
It is found in the Brushy Basin Member in the Morrison Formation from the Jurassic Period about 155 million years old.
Yellow Cat Petrified Wood is extremely rare and highly prized by wood and rare specimen collectors alike.
The majority of the petrified wood found here is partial replacements with the banded agate mixed with permineralized wood to complete a limb casts. The amazing colors range from red, orange, black and yellow from the iron and other impurities present.
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.
