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Petrified Wood Stone Slab Polished Full Round Sweet Home Oregon
Lovely Petrified Wood from Sweet Home, Oregon.
This is a full round, slabbed, and polished on one side.
It is 4.9 inches by 3.9 inches and almost .5 inch thick.
There is a large and scattered Oligocene/Miocene petrified forest near Sweet Home, in Linn County, Oregon. There are numerous locations (most on private land) of beautiful petrified wood in the hills and valleys of the Cascade Foothills. The wood that is found there varies a great deal in quality and preservation (even within the same dig site) but is often very agatized and extremely well preserved showing the finest level of plant detail under magnification.
Researchers have identified over 60 species of Petrified Wood in this area!
The colors found in the petrified wood in Sweet Home are mostly wood and earth tones, but a few pieces have blue/gray/black colors.
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.
