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Petrified Wood Polished Slab Saddle Mountain Washington
This is a gorgeous colorful polished slab of Petrified Wood from Saddle Mountain, Washington.
The Petrified Wood piece is sliced and polished on one side and it is 6.5 inches and by 3.85 inches wide and .28 of an inch thick.
This one is very metallic!
A variety of Cupressinoxylon (Cypress), known as Saddle Mountain Picture Wood, is named for its dendritic patterns and has beautiful colors, 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 the Kirkby collection and was self-collected somewhere in the 40's to the 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.
