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Petrified Wood Polished Round Saddle Mountain Washington
This is a gorgeous colorful polished round of Petrified Wood from Saddle Mountain, Washington.
The natural Petrified Wood piece is slabbed and polished on one side and it is 6.245 inches and by 5.25 inches and 6.5 mm thick.
May not quite be a full round "bark" all the way around as one smaller edge (last picture) might be missing a little bit
This one slightly translucent in some spots and it is very metallic!
A variety of Cupressinoxylon, known as Saddle Mountain Picture Wood, is named for its dendritic patterns and has beautiful colors, dendritic patterns, and metallic iron inclusions.
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.
