Petrified Wood

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Petrified Wood

Petrified wood is made up of almost solid quartz like a giant crystal of clear quartz, purple amethyst, yellow citrine, and smoky quartz, often sparkling in the sunlight as if covered by glitter.  The rainbow of colors is produced by impurities in the quartz such as iron, carbon and manganese.  Over 200 million years ago (Triassic Period – the time before Dinosaurs in the Jurassic Period), the logs washed into an ancient river system and were buried quick enough and deep enough by massive amounts of sediment and water, that oxygen was cut off and decay slowed to a process that would take centuries.  Minerals, including a silica dissolved from volcanic ash, absorbed into the porous wood over hundreds and thousands of years crystallized within the cellular structure, replacing the organic material as it broke down over time.

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