Petrified Wood Sycamore Lapidary Stone Slab Rough Rock Fossil #O1

Description

Petrified Wood Stone Slab Cabbing Rock Fossil
This is type of rare
Petrified Sycamore Wood
with a feather like pattern is only found in Washington.
This Petrified Wood unpolished stone slab for cabbing is 5.6 inches by 3.8 inches and 10 mm thick (suitable for matched pairs!)..
It weighs .70 lbs. and is shown wet in the first 2 pictures.
Tree trunks were buried under several hundred yards of sediment. Over the course of time the wood was replaced by cryptocrystalline quartz, largely chalcedony and jasper. During the replacement process by silica carried in underground waters, even the most minute details of the woody structure was preserved.
Metaphysical Properties:
Petrified Wood is a stone of patience and slow and steady growth.
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