PETRIFIED WOOD: (also called "Wood Jasper" or "Wood Agate"). Buried for millions of years and deprived of oxygen, trees were unable to decompose as normal. Instead, they were slowly fossilized as silica, calcite, pyrite and opal seeped into the wood’s cellular structure and replaced it. This crystallization process formed the hard-as-stone material known as petrified wood. Even though it’s no longer wood, the minerals have preserved the tree’s appearance and structure… including the bark and tree rings. It is often referred to as Wood Jasper if the fossil is opaque, or Wood Agate if it is more translucent.

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