SiS: INCREDIBLE Blue Forest Petrified Wood - Huge Seed Shrimp Colony in Agate!

Description

This is one of those very rare Blue Forest pieces that shows how this famous petrified wood site earned its name! This log is not only exquisitely preserved, it's also completely invaded with pale blue/white agate.  But it isn't the agate or even that beautiful wood grain that makes this one so amazing.  Look closely and you can see several agate filled insect boring tunnels that are completely packed with hundreds of tiny fossil seed shrimp!  There are so many that it is easy to spot the colonies with your naked eye but the real show comes to life when viewed under magnification!
These tiny clam shaped critters are called ostracods and while they are found from time to time in these logs you rarely see anything this dramatic.  This one is really a museum piece and deserves to go where it can be shown to many eager eyes!  These little creatures are fascinating and the third life form to occupy the space after the tree itself and the insect that tunneled through it.  It's a rare chance to get a double fossil in one glorious and beautiful gemstone. Definitely one of the best I've ever finished.  You won't see a more fascinating specimen and with our polish I can promise you won't see a nicer one anywhere!!
Here's an absolutely museum grade Blue Forest petrified round cut from the center of a perfectly formed log that's got it all. There's a lot of brilliantly colored blue agate framing the perfectly preserved log frozen inside. It's got really nice wood preservation throughout with a very well defined heart in the center of the log and the most stunning wood grain you'll ever see in one of these pieces! It's accented with more than its share of blue agate too! I'm amazed at the detail in the blue fortification agate that filled the voids around this log - the agate alone would make this a collector piece - coupled with the absolutely flawless petrified wood round inside it becomes a real collection centerpiece! You won't won't find anyone else with Blue Forest wood this exceptional!!
The Blue Forest is a uniquely preserved bed of small branches and occasional logs in central Wyoming. The digging is hot and dusty, but every once in a while you stumble on a real treasure and this little log is one of them! The dark, blue/black, coffee and chocolate colors the wood is preserved in are characteristic of these specimens, as are the infusions of blue agate that filled the cracks and coated the log!
This is a perfectly polished slice from the end (heel cut) of a larger than average sized log from a pepperwood tree. It's been cut and polished to show off all the gemmy detail from this 50 million year old treasure captured inside. It took a pretty awesome polish - something we strive to produce on every specimen we put our name on! The fibrous cell structure of the radial wood grain is exceptional and easily studied with a hand lens.
This is a nice, eye catching specimen, and it is close to perfect - something that will show proudly in any collection. Larger than most Blue Forest rounds, this one measures about 5 1/2" across the polished face and is a maximum of about 3/4" thick.  It weighs 0.70 lbs.
A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from
Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary
.