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Petrified Wood Schilderia Round Polished Rock Arizona
This lovely piece of Petrified Wood, Schilderia, is a full "round" (bark all the way around-though one edge is very thin), slabbed and polished on one side, natural rough on the back.
The Petrified Wood round is 6 inches long by 3.5 inches wide and 1 inch at its thickest.
Most of the petrified wood from the Chinle Formation in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico is Arucarioxylon arizonicum (Auracaria), but a small amount of 2 much rarer species of wood, Woodworthia arizonica and Schilderia adamanica, are also present in Arizona and in very small amounts in the Wolverine Petrified Forest in Utah.
Schilderia was a distinctive gymnosperm genus now extinct. Schilderia was a large tree with a solid woody cylinder. This genus can be easily recognized by its large rays, which are clearly visible to the naked eye.
The most important find in the world of Petrified Wood is in Northern Arizona.
This Petrified Wood is found in the Chinle Formation and comes from the Triassic Period around 220 million years ago.
The "Petrified Forest" was made a National Park in 1962. In 1988 the Arizona state legislature designated petrified wood the Arizona state fossil.
Petrified Wood formed when a tree died and is 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.
