Thick 10" Petrified Wood (Metasequoia) - Sweet Home, Oregon

This is a gorgeous 10" wide slab of petrified Metasequoia (Dawn Redwood) from the Tahama Formation near Sweet Home, Oregon. It's a nice, thick slab at over an inch thick and one face has been polished to a mirror like finish. A really beautiful piece. Comes with a display stand.

The rich coloration is due to the contaminating minerals in the silica which replaced the original wood structure. For example pinks and reds are due to hematite, a form of oxidized iron. This is similar petrified would which is found in the Petrified Forest National Park. The petrified forest encompasses nearly 100k acres and this wood comes from land outside of the park.