PETRIFIED LOG SECTION
Zambia River Valley, Zimbabwe, Africa
This lovely little stump looks almost exactly as it would have in life, with the roughly textured bark covering the outside. What has changed is the literal replacement of the wood by minerals in the environment, preserving the exact cellular structure of the original, but in a glorious display of color. The bark has an attractive green tinge to it, and the cut face has been highly polished to display warm, dark woody coloring, with a cream and green-tinted rim, and a long creamy splash around a vug near the very center, lined with tiny salmon-pink crystals. A fine aesthetic specimen, it measures approximately 9 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches.