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Wiggins Fork Petrified Wood Polished Agate Limb Cast Wyoming
Lovely Petrified Wood Limb cast full round ("bark" all the way around) from Wiggins Fork, Wyoming that has been slabbed and polished on one side.
It is 7.75 inches by 5.25 inches and .6 of an inch thick.
Wiggins Fork Petrified Wood is found in the Absaroka Mountains, in the Wiggins Formation along the Wiggins Fork River and Frontier Creek, which is north of Dubois, Wyoming and near the Double Cabin campground.
This is from the early Eocene Era, 56 million to 33 million years ago!
This is a limb cast as the wood decayed before the replacement occurred and so none of the characteristics of the original wood are present. The center is an agate replacement with beautiful fortification banding and it has natural botryoidal crystal pockets!
Wood casts, fossil cone casts, agatized seeds, and oval nodules have also been found in this region. These are clear, gray, brown, yellow, green, and red with patterns that include fortifications, banding, spots, moss, tea leaf, and iris agate.
This is still a popular place for people to collect agates and petrified wood, but large areas in this region are now closed to collecting. This piece is from the Kirkby collection, self-collected from the 40's to the 60's.
