SiS: HUGE & RARE Black 14" Hampton Butte Petrified Wood Slab - Fossil PINE!!

SiS: HUGE & RARE Black 14" Hampton Butte Petrified Wood Slab - Fossil PINE!!

$328.00
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This site is most famous for the colorful if poorly preserved log casts that make up Oregon's famed green petrified forest, but every once in a great while a darker colored either black or wood-tone log is found.  Such logs are as prized as they are rare because they tend to be far better preserved fossils than their more colorful jasperized counterparts.  This is one of those logs and it appears to be a reasonably nicely preserved fossil pine.   I knew this one would be special as soon as we cut it!  The sun had bleached the cut end of this log to reveal great growth structure to the naked eye while it sat untouched for years in an estate collection.  Add to it the high agate content and other minerals that formed naturally in ancient desiccation cracks and you have a true collector piece!  The slab alternates between a very dark, earthy olive green to black and brown.  There are threads of bluish white agate throughout the entire piece.  The upper region shows the growth rings very c

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