Petrified Wood Slab Sphalerite and blues as well as

and blues as well as the more commonly encountered clear or pale white

Each contains at least one (most several) clearly visible insect

it is largely mined as an industrial ore across the globe

which over the course of millions of years becomes solid while retaining the semitransparent yellowish hue of tree sap

Petrified Wood Slab Sphalerite and blues as well asPerhaps the most well known fossil material in the world, petrified wood is not wood at all but rather the fossilized remnants of trees from millions of years ago. Tree trunks, limbs, and branches that died under conditions that favor fossilization gradually become replaced with minerals until what remains is a replica of the original piece of wood consisting entirely of mineral material. Like the trees they capture the form of, each is unique and