Petrified Wood Wyoming, Blue Forest Petirfied Wood, Eden Valley Petrified Wood Wyoming

Eden Valley Petrified Wood was formed from plants living about 50 million years ago . The rock exhibits features not found in fossil wood anywhere else in the world. The petrification process for this area involved shallow "algae growing" lakes. In many cases, for undetermined reasons, the wood came to be in this water in its live condition before it had a chance to dry out and look like old dead wood. This wood became coated with algae which adhered to the surface making a cast or mold around the wood. Later the wood dried and shrunk in the mold made of algae . Over time these algae casts became part of a layered rock formation. Silica-rich water solutions seeping through the rock then petrified the wood and filled in the spaces left between the dried wood and the hardened cast with agate, calcite, and quartz.

Petrifying process: As the agate coated the inside surface of the algae cast, perfect impressions of the bark were left in the agate. Thus there are some rocks that show two 50 million year old "pictures" of the same plant -- one picture of how the plant looked alive and another after it died and dried out!

Wormholes: Because the petrification process seems to have been "protected" by the algae cast formation, unusually detailed representations of the wood have been preserved. Lichens exquisite representations of bark both live and dried out have been preserved. Worm holes, insect borings, woodpecker holes, and other events have been observed in the petrified wood. Even very rare lichen fossils and small clam shells have been duplicated in the agate.

Item # 600 Blue Forest Petrified Wood Round Slab

Item #600
Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood Rough Round Slab - Approx. size 7" x 7" x .5 " - 1.5 lbs. - $ 95.00

Item # 601 Blue Forest Petrified Wood Round Slab

Item #601
Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood Rough Round Slab - Approx. size 7" x 7" x .5 " - 1.5 lbs. - $ 95.00

Item # 602 Blue Forest Petrified Wood Round Slab

Item #602
Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood Rough Round Slab - Approx. size 7" x 6 " x .5 " - 1.25 lbs. - $ 90.00

Item # 603 Blue Forest Petrified Wood Round Slab

Item #603
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Item # 604 Blue Forest Petrified Wood Round Slab

Item #604
Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood Rough Round Slab - Approx. size 7" x 6 " x .5 " - 1.25 lbs. - $ 90.00

Item # 605 Blue Forest Petrified Wood Round Slab

Item #605
Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood Rough Round Slab - Approx. size 7" x 7" x .5 " - 1.5 lbs. - $ 95.00

Item # 606 Blue Forest Petrified Wood Round Slab

Item #606
Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood Rough Round Slab - Approx. size 7" x 6" x .5 " - 1.25 lbs. - $ 95.00

Item # 607 Blue Forest Petrified Wood Round Slab

Item #607
Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood Rough Round Slab - Approx. size 7" x 7" x .5 " - 1.5 lbs. - $ 95.00

Item #608
Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood cut & polished slab - Approx. size 3" x 4.5" x .25" - 80 grams - $ 30.00

Item #609 Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood Rough Rounds

Item #609
Two Large Blue Forest Wyoming Petrified Wood Rough Rounds - Approx. size 10" x 10" x 8" - 65 lbs. - $975.00

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