Lot 1142
Blue Forest Petrified Wood. The 50 million year old fossilized blue-black wood of the Pepperwood Tree is found only in the Eden Valley of Wyoming. The petrified wood from this area is different from any other fossilized wood known from other areas of the world in that the wood was somehow coated in algae while the wood was immersed in water and later dried and shrunk after being coated in a hard algae mold. Over millions of years surface water entered the spaces left between the dried wood and the algae cast replacing the wood with agate, calcite and quartz. This large 14 x 8 inch trunk section with a thick branch extending out is shaped something like a giant arrowhead and has had its top side polished and coated revealing its signature color pallete from tans to browns to splashes of black as well as areas of the rare blue agate. The edge of the trunk also exhibits cream colored calcite and yellow colored quartz as well as a coating of cream to translucent Chalcedony. Most pieces of fossilized wood from this famous area are rather small sections of branches. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a much larger trunk section with partial branch attached.
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Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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