SiS: Petrified Wood Round - McDermitt, OR Fossil White Ash - GEMMY Specimen
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:4378169 |
One of the best McDermitt hardwoods in an easy to collect and display size that we've cut this season! This is a very agatized fossil white ash specimen that has been polished to a true mirror finish in our shop! This slab is thicker than most and has nice heft. It is an extremely well preserved fossil hardwood with very clear wood structure under magnification. The ring porous structure shows pores that are small...er and tighter in the early wood that look most like a modern white ash tree. This slab represents some of the best of what the McDermitt digs can produce - a true collector piece! This is a really beautiful specimen of the petrified wood found in a desolate sagebrush desert that spans over 100 square miles on the Oregon/Nevada border. It's a slice from a perfectly preserved hardwood, with absolutely gorgeous gem quality agate in warm, natural wood tones preserving this ancient fossil. The exterior is still ash white - colored by the ancient volcanic blast that buried this prehistoric forest. The inside, however, is a richly colored array of gem quality agate that preserved the wood grain beautifully in every detail! The cell structure from the growth rings in this attractive fossil specimen are amazingly well preserved, especially in the lighter colored regions. The rays and the cells in this excellent ring porous hardwood fossil are consistent with black ash trees. The pit that this log came from has produced many fine petrified cherry specimens but few other hardwoods. The specimens from this particular dig (airport site) are easily recognized by the richer than average color spectrum and the nicely contrasting rind (even by other McDermitt dig standards). This excellent round comes from one of Oregon's premier petrified wood deposits known to collectors the world over. If you don't have a specimen from this area, this would be a dandy to get you acquainted!! It's cut from the center of a nicely shaped log that allows you to see the medullary rays and other cell features with your naked eye (although it takes good eye sight to see fibers that small). This specimen has been carefully polished to show off all the gemmy detail inside. It took a beautiful polish and has just a few hints of red in some of the cells (probably from the nearby cinnabar deposits)! It's another one of those beautiful fossil treasures that some happy Sticks-in-Stones customer is going to flip over! This round measures 6 1/2" in diameter and is cut approx. 0.68" thick. Display stand shown is sold separately. Weight is 1.70 lbs. A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.
