Petrified Wood Sycamore Lapidary Rough Rock Fossil Mineral Washington #10

Description

Petrified Sycamore Wood Fossilized Lapidary Rough Rock
This Petrified Sycamore Wood fossil rough rock is 5.8 inches long by 2 to 2.75 inches wide and 1 inch at its thickest.
This natural unpolished semi precious stone endcut weighs .46 lbs. and is shown wet in the first 2 pictures.
This is
Petrified Sycamore Wood
from Washington.
Tree trunks were buried under several hundred yards of sediment. Over the course of time the wood was replaced by cryptocrystalline quartz, largely chalcedony and jasper. During the replacement process by silica carried in underground waters, even the most minute details of the woody structure was preserved.
Metaphysical Properties:
Petrified Wood is believed to be a stone of patience and slow and steady growth.