A LARGE SLICE OF PETRIFIED WOOD

CHINLE FORMATION, UTAH, UNITED STATES

A large slice of petrified wood (107 x 70 x 3.7 cm)ꦺ, di🅠scovered near the petrified forests of Arizona, Trias (circa 220 million years ago).

This beautiful spꦯecimen of petrified wood sliced from the trunk of a giant tree, came from the finest deposit of its kind in the world, near the great petrified forest of Arizona in the US. The tree began its transition from a living organism to its current form over 22 million years ago. Gale force winds or a cataclysmic volcanic eruptions are both likely candidates for the cause of the tree's fall, along with its gigantic brothers, all crashing together into a river. Many of these trees rotted away, but several others slowly mineralized after having been covered with layers of sediment. Slowly over time, the cells of the tree♌ were replaced with minerals — while it would have taken this tree fewer than 100 years to petrify, it took millions of years for modern man to discover it.