7.8" Polished Petrified Wood (Araucarioxylon) Round - Utah

This is a beautiful, 7.8" wide, polished round of petrified wood (Araucarioxylon) from the Chinle Formation Southeastern Utah. One side has been highly polished to a mirror-like finish. It has a lot of bluish/blue coloration with some highlights around the edges. It comes out of collection of petrified wood we recently purchased a lot of material from and I'm not sure I've seen another round quite like this one from Utah.

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
Southeast, Utah
FORMATION
Chinle Formation
SIZE
7.8 x 7.7", 1" thick
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#143847
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