SiS: PERFECT 6 " Blue Forest Petrified Wood Round - Beautifully Polished
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:15575529 |
This one is both colorful and perfectly detailed - what a wonderful petrified wood specimen! The agate in this one is particularly attractive and accents both the agatized wood and the fossilized algae rind framing it. This is a very "woody" round showing more of the petrified wood and plenty of the blue agate filled desiccation cracks that gave this forest it's name. Here's an absolutely lovely Blue Forest petrified w...ood round cut from the center of a perfectly formed log. There's a lot of translucent agate framing the perfectly preserved log frozen inside. This exquisite fossil features really nice wood preservation throughout with a very well defined heart in the center of the log and the most stunning wood grain you'll ever see in one of these pieces! It's accented with a large pocket of golden calcite revealed in the cut face and a small section of petrified bark which is seldom seen in this location! The Blue Forest is a uniquely preserved bed of small branches and occasional logs in central Wyoming. The digging is hot and dusty, but every once in a while you stumble on a real treasure and this little log is one of them! The dark, blue/black, coffee and chocolate colors the wood is preserved in are characteristic of these specimens, as are the infusions of blue agate that filled the cracks and coated the log! This is a perfectly flat slice from the center of a larger than average sized log from a pepperwood tree. It's been cut and polished to show off all the gemmy detail from this 50 million year old treasure captured inside. It took a pretty awesome polish - something we strive to produce on every specimen we put our name on! The fibrous cell structure of the radial wood grain is exceptional and easily studied with a hand lens. This is a nice, eye catching specimen, and it is close to perfect - something that will show proudly in any collection. It measures about 5 7/8" across the polished face and is sliced roughly 0.43" thick. Stands shown sold separately. A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary - eBay's Original Rockshop!
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