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Petrified Wood Polished Round Disaster Peak Nevada
This is a gorgeous polished full round ('bark" all the way around) and double hearted piece of Petrified Wood from Disaster Peak near McDermott, Nevada.
The natural Petrified Wood piece is slabbed and polished on one side and it is 3.78 inches by 2.83 inches wide and .36 of an inch at its thickest.
McDermott 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 McDermott. Disaster Peak was named after an 1864 confrontation between prospectors and the Paiutes.
McDermott is a small remote little town in northern Nevada that straddles the Nevada/Oregon state line along Hwy 95.
The McDermott 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.
