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Petrified Wood Round Unpolished Stone Slab Grassy Mountain Oregon
This Petrified Wood unpolished stone slab is 4.5 inches by 3 inches and 5 mm thick.
It weighs .20 lbs. and is shown wet in the first 2 pictures.
This gemstone is the fossilized wood of trees. The Petrified Wood formed when a tree died and was 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.
Grassy Mountain is a remote high-desert rockhounding destination in Malheur County, near Owyhee Lake, Oregon and is well-known for the excellent quality of petrified wood. The Grassy Mountain Formation of southeastern Oregon is from the Middle-Miocene age about 12.5 million years ago. For over a century, permineralized remains of stumps, logs, and branches have been recovered from several localities near Grassy Mountain.
Metaphysical Properties: Petrified Wood is a stone of patience and slow and steady growth.
