SiS: HAMPTON BUTTE - 8" Oregon Green Petrified Wood Round - Fossil Hardwood

Description

This is a nice, medium sized and beautifully colored green, white & brown Hampton Butte petrified wood round with a neat variety of colors and a lot more wood grain than typical still left in this partial cast replacement.  Though this is a vast and productive petrified forest that spans many miles of hillsides and canyons, good rounds with nice color are a rare treat as most of what is found is incomplete and highly jasperized.  This slab shows quite a bit of wood structure, but not enough to identify it definitively.  It appears to be a diffuse porous hardwood under magnification and while there are lots of rings, rays and cells, they aren't quite crisp enough to extract a clear species possibility from it.  Regardless of it's story, it's an attractive specimen that will provide hours of fascination for it's new owner.  The stone is slightly porous and takes an inconsistent polish, but it polished a lot better than you might expect - it's ready to be shown with pride in your collection!  Good luck!
NOTE:  Second photo is taken from a mate slice from the same log.  It's included to show edge detail and finish quality which are virtually identical in this piece but difficult to capture in a photo.
Arguably one of the most well known and interesting petrified wood deposits in Oregon is the "Green Wood" deposit at Hampton Butte in Central Oregon. This wood is more jasperized than agatized and is often more of a cast than a wood replacement, though exceptions to both of these are certainly found. The logs are more often than not fairly fractured, but the colors are unmatched anywhere else. The dominant color is green - REALLY GREEN! These are accented with white, yellow, red, orange and other classic jasper tones - but green is what it's all about if you're looking for a good Hampton Butte specimen. Not every piece will polish well, and they don't all look an awful lot like wood, but a good specimen is tough to beat and a must have for any serious petrified wood collection - or even if you just happen to love green!
This round is kind of tough to get a good photo of, but the color is pretty true on my monitor. It's a fairly green stone with an almost khaki hue.  It stands out as an amazing natural specimen in a color rarely found elsewhere.   There's a ton of white agate inclusions throughout the rock. It's got a pretty high agate concentration and took a reasonable polish - something we work hard to produce on every stone we sell!
If you haven't seen our petrified wood specimens before then you've been missing one of the best treasures found on eBay! We work hard to find the best specimens from the most prized locations and then work with our magic to create a world class specimen for your collection. The piece is quite solid and meant to be handled. A quick squirt of windex will remove fingerprints from the glassy polished surface.
It measures about 7 7/8" wide and is sliced about 1/2" thick. Weight is about 1.38 lbs.
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