10.8" Tall, Colorful, Rough Petrified Wood Log - Arizona

This is a brilliantly colored, 10.8" long log of Araucarioxylon arizonicum petrified wood from Arizona. One edge has been cut flat but not polished. It has a nice variety of red, orange and yellow coloration. Comes with a display stand.

Araucarioxylon Petrified Wood From Arizona

This wood is similar to petrified wood found in the Petrified Forest National Park near Holbrook, Arizona. Its petrified forest encompasses nearly 100,000 acres, and is almost entirely represented by the extinct conifer Araucarioxylon arizonicum.

The petrified wood from Araucarioxylon arizonicum happens to be the state fossil of Arizona. It is frequently referred to as "rainbow wood" because of the large variety of colors some specimens exhibit. The reds and oranges come from hematite inclusions within the silica, the yellows from limonite, and the purples from extremely fine hematite spherules.

Araucarioxylon arizonicum is estimated to have grown more than 150 feet high and dominated the tropical forests in what is now Arizona nearly 225 million years ago.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Araucarioxylon arizonicum
LOCATION
Arizona
FORMATION
Chinle Formation
SIZE
10.8 x 5.9"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#143976
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