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Origin: Indonesia
- Age: Miocene, 20 million years ago.
- Size: H68cm W32cm D21cm
- Description: Polished trunk of petrified wood from Indonesia with a preserved texture of bark to edge. Very beautiful and rare range of colours including beige and black tones.
- Additional information: Petrified wood consists of fossil wood, in which all organic materials have been replaced by minerals, while maintaining the structure of the wood. The fossilization process takes place under the ground, when a tree becomes buried under sediment, and may take millions of years. The smallest details can be immortalized including tree rings and various tissues cPetrified wood has a hardness of 7 on the Mohs hardness scale, the same as quartz.