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Petrified Wood Round Polished Rock Hanksville Utah
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 4.9 inches long by 4.9 inches wide and .5 of an inch thick.
The Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument is in southern Utah. The park features a high mesa that was once an ancient floodplain.
Hanksville is a small city located in the northern part of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in southern Utah and is north of the famous Henry Mountains.
The petrified wood found here is from the Upper Jurassic and is 150 million years old.
This piece was from the Kirkby collection and was self-collected in the 40's or 50's, prior to the establishment of the park.
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.
