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Petrified Wood Round Polished Yakima Canyon Washington
This lovely piece of Petrified Wood is a full "round" (bark all the way around), slabbed and polished on one side.
The Petrified Wood round is 3.67 inches long by 2.88 inches wide and .65 of an inch thick.
They say bark usually does not petrify, but this one has an interesting separation and botryoidal formation of crystals between that makes me think it is actual petrified bark! (see last picture)
Sometimes in petrified wood there are spots or tunnels caused by wood boring insects that burrowed through the tree when it was alive, millions of years ago. The larvae of wood-boring beetles hatch and excavate tunnels in wood during their development. As the trees were still alive at the time of the wood boring insect or beetle attack, they sometimes responded by subsequent filling of the borings as a wound reaction. When the tree is fossilized those areas may be replaced with different minerals and show up as different colored spots or tubes.
Yakima Canyon, Washington, is a scenic area along the Yakima River. The canyon walls reveal layers of ancient volcanic ash and petrified wood.
Approximately 17.5 million years ago during the middle of the Miocene epoch, a series of large volcanic eruptions began in the eastern part of the Columbia River Plateau, near the present day borders of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. When conditions were right, some of these forests and swamps were buried by subsequent flows and the trees were preserved by silica dissolved from volcanic ash and the basalts. This happened several times during the 10 million years of volcanic eruptions, resulting in numerous deposits of fossilized wood across the Columbia Plateau.
This petrified wood piece is from the Kirkby collection and was self-collected sometime in the 1930's to the 1970's.
The wood that came out of the canyon during the 60’s and 70’s is said to be some of the finest wood of all time when it comes to beauty, preservation, and taking a polish.
