8.7" Polished Petrified Wood (Palm) Slab - Wyoming

This is a beautiful, polished slab of petrified palmwood (Palmoxylon) from Eden Valley, Wyoming. One face has been polished to a mirror like finish allowing the much of the inner wood detail to be easily seen. There are a few stablized cracks in the slab, but it was never broken all of the way through. Comes with a display stand.

Petrified palmwood includes a group of fossil woods that contain rod-like structures within the regular grain of the silicified or agatized wood. Depending upon the angle at which they are cut, these structures show up as spots, tapering rods, or continuous lines. The rod-like structures are sclerenchyma bundles that comprise part of the woody tissues that gave the wood its vertical strength.

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DETAILS
SPECIES
Palmoxylon (Palm)
AGE
LOCATION
Eden Valley, Wyoming
FORMATION
Blue Forest Formation
SIZE
8.7x4.7", 5/8" thick
ITEM
#78854
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