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Wiggins Fork Petrified Wood Wyoming Polished Round
Lovely Petrified Wood full round ("bark" all the way around) from Wiggins Fork, Wyoming that has been slabbed and polished on one side.
It is 5 inches by 3.8 inches and .5 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.
It is from the early Eocene Era, 56 million to 33 million years ago!
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 an old collection, self-collected from the 40's to the 70's.
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.
