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Petrified Wood Polished Slab Yakima Canyon Washington
This amazing piece of Petrified Wood is slabbed and polished on one side.
The Petrified Wood round is 3.9 inches long by 3.5 inches wide and .40 of an inch thick.
It has a really cool look and would make great cabochons if you want to cut it up.
It is repaired-it appears about 1.5 -2 inches of the right side in the first picture has been glued back on. I tried to capture pictures of the crack and the glue on the back.
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.
