11.4" Free-Standing Polished Rainbow Petrified Wood - Arizona

Free-Standing Polished Rainbow Petrified Wood - Arizona #274771

This is a brilliantly colored, 11.4" wide polished section of petrified wood (Araucarioxylon arizonicum) from Arizona. One side has been cut and highly polished to a glossy finish by one of the best petrified wood polishers around. A lot of stunning purple, yellow, and red hues in this piece.

This beautiful mantle piece weighs just under 14 lbs and has been cut flat on one edge for presentation purposes.

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.