Agatized Petrified Wood

Petrified wood agatized wood sometimes used as a raw material for the manufacture of flaked stone artifacts.

Agatized petrified wood. Petrified wood can be valuable for scientific uses as well as collectibility and artistic applications like jewelry or tabletops. Smooth sections are often 3 to 5 inches 76 to 127 cm in length. Petrifaction occurs when water that contains inorganic minerals such as calcium carbon-ate or silica.

But over millions of years jet undergoes a different process where it is heated and compressed. Some looks like plain old wood. It is said to promote a free spirit allowing you to feel at peace and one with those around you.

Most petrified wood in the wilderness has the texture of sandstone. Petrified wood from the Greek root petro meaning rock or stone. Jet does start the same way with dead wood buried underground.

Only 1 available and its in 2 peoples carts. Some chunks in the most dense ash piles are almost white. Petrified wood is commonly referred to as fossilized or agatized wood and has been identified as a member of the Quartz family.

Small samples of low-quality petrified wood may not be worth anything. Most people believe that the wood actually turns itself to stone but this is a common misconception. Often banded or laminated and of variable color.

Petrified Agate Fossil Wood Limb End Specimen 1900 Foreclosure Sale 2549. Approx 5 x 6 round x 25 thick Petrified Wood formed when the original trees and branches were rapidly buried under sediment and were initially preserved due to a lack of oxygen some 50 million years ago. Some of the best specimens of petrified wood have been preserved by silicification.