
- Origin: Stinking Water, Oregon, USA
- Age: Early to Middle Pliocene, 5 to 2.6 million years
- Size: H45cm W46cm D3cm
- Weight: 8 Kg
- Description: : Oregon's youngest Tertiary fossil woods reside in the Deschutes flora, an Early to Middle Pliocene deposit near the Columbia River. This is a polished petrified hardwood wood slice, showcasing in the most ideal way the petrified wood characteristics of this area. The tree type could be determined via a scientific approach using higher magnification micrographs techniques. This specimen comes from a defunct world renowned site that is not accessible anymore.
- Additional Information: Petrified wood, fossil formed by the invasion of minerals into cavities between and within cells of natural wood, usually by silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2) or calcite (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).