Description
Beautifully slice of Queensland Dom Pentoxylon Petrified Wood.
Type of stone: Dom Pentoxylon Petrified Wood
Origin: Queensland
Approx Size: 145mm x 105mm x Butt end up to 20mm
Weight: 330 grams
Dom Pentoxylon is a new genus of seed fern from New Zealand and Australia that has been petrified.
Petrified wood is a fossilized wood where the original plant material has been replaced by minerals, typically silica and opal. This process involves groundwater with dissolved minerals that replace the wood's cell structure, preserving the original shape and sometimes even cellular details of the original wood .
This can take a very short time or occur over a longer time period. In Victoria fence posts that were being replaced were found to be fossilized after less than 50 years.
The petrified wood can display a variety of colors due to the presence of other minerals such as iron.
The last 3 pictures show how we cut and polish the slabs.
The front is polished and the back is left rough.
All photos are taken with the rock dry.
Comes with free stand as seen in the photos.
Please Note
As all of our stones are natural there may be cracks, holes and other imperfections. All of our stones are natural and we don't do any crack or void filling. We don't use oils or waxes to enhance our stones. We polish our stones by using finer and finer diamond polishing pads followed by different types of polishing oxide.
We do our best to show the true nature of our stones. Different computers and phones display colours differently.
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