Large Blue Forest Petrified Wood Slice - 8"

This is a beautiful slice of 50 million year old petrified wood from the famous "Blue Forest" in Eden Valley, Wyoming. It was formed when trees died and fell into a swamp where they are rapidly covered by algae. This formed casts that preserved the original bark surfaces of the trees and kept them from decaying. Eventually the algae casts and the spaces between them were filled in by minerals, often in exquisite, crystalline form.

This particular slice is very large for the location at 8" across. It's a cut from the end of a large log, so it has varying thickness, being quite thin in some areas and require stabalizing the back side of it to avoid breakage.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.