Polished Petrified Wood - Standing

No, don't be scared - it's a different kind of petrified! Beautiful, deep red, ancient wood turned to stone over eons of petrification. Wood buried in the ground after countless years of soil buildup received flowing water which deposited minerals, and the different minerals colour it gorgeously. The predominate red colour here is from hematite, a form of oxidized iron.  From Madagascar, and likely from the Triassic age (200-250 million years ago), this piece is actually no longer wood - it is literally stone.  Imagine your life, living to be 100 years old - now imagine nine entire more lifetimes, filled with all the joys and pains they may bring, how long and yet how short they may seem - now consider those ten lives as one set. Take ten total sets, and that's as far as recorded history goes. Take one hundred of those sets, and we arrive at one million years, or ten thousand lifetimes. At the upper age of 250 million years - we are only at a fourth of one percent the way there. Ten th