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Petrified Wood Stinking Water Golden Oak Polished Slab Oregon
This beautiful polished Petrified Wood Golden Oak stone slab is 6 inches by 2.79 inches and 1/2 inch thick.
Perhaps Oregon's most famous petrified wood deposit. The Stinking Water area is in the same Columbia Plateau that produces most of the Washington wood areas, this wood dates from middle Miocene through Pliocene epoch about 12.1 million years ago.
Woods found here include alder, cypress, elm, poplar, sycamore and the famous golden oak, named for its golden color. Conifers were actually rare here.
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.
