9.8" Tall, Arizona Petrified Wood Bookends - Colorful

Tall, Arizona Petrified Wood Bookends - Colorful #99340

This is a gorgeous pair of large bookends made from Late Triassic aged, Arizona petrified wood. The bookends have been polished on the outer face and have faint rings of red and black, with purple and yellow colorations scattered throughout the bookends. Exceptional polishing work on this pair.

Each bookend slightly varies in size, with one measuring 9.8" tall, 7.2" wide and 1.6" thick, while the other is 9.6" tall, 7" wide and 1.7" thick.

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.