Month: February 2021
SiS GREEN STARBURST WOODWORTHIA Spectacular African Petrified Wood Round
This is one of the most beautifully colored, perfectly preserved and finely detailed of the Zimbabwe Woodworthia specimens I’ve had the pleasure of offering! I wasn’t sure what this log was going to yield and held off cutting it, only to discover the brilliant green spike knot rays and the gorgeous green accent colors highlighting […]
SiS 8 Chinle ARIZONA CRYSTAL FOREST Petrified Wood Round Crystalloxylon
This may be the single most interesting and collectible of all of the magnificent Arizona petrified wood slabs that we’ve offered this year! The high contrast black with coffee colored preservation shows clear rays and rings and reveals an attractive, well polished and beautifully shaped cross section from an ancient conifer. The specimen is lovely […]
SiS QUADRUPLE HEARTED 17 Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Round XTRA Thick Slab
This is one of the most amazing and unusual cuts I’ve seen in a Hubbard Basin log. These trees were mostly spruce, and this was a big one with some large branches that have formed big, swirling knots in the wood grain of this ancient fossil gemstone. The multiple hearts are actually knots from branches […]
Banded Iron Formation Stromatolite Cyanobacteria Tiger Iron Western Australia 8
Polished Tiger Iron Specimen. Banded Iron Formation (BIF). Hamersley Iron District of Western Australia. Archean in Age 3.8-2.7 Billion Years Old. The oldest known Stromatolites (Cyanobacteria) date back to 3.74 Billion years. Consisting of 7/8 of all life that ever existed in the recorded fossil record. Stromatolites were the first organisms that used photosynthesis as […]
SiS MUSEUM GRADE 17 Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Round TRULY AMAZING SLAB
Beautiful McDermitt round! CHERRYTop Shelf
Beautiful round of petrified Cherry wood. From the classic Airport Dig at McDermitt, straddling the Oregon-Nevada border. It comes out of one of the finest collections of petrified wood in the Northwest! Perfect, liquid, glassy, mirror polish. Preservation is perfect, and is wonderful under the microscope. Beautiful agate in shades of brown and chocolate. 7 […]
Tom Miner Basin round! RARETop Shelf
Another beautiful round of petrified wood. This time a rare one, too! From the Tom Miner Basin, in Montana. An area long closed to collecting. An old timer, collected in 1960’s. The only round I have from this location. It comes out of one of the finest collections of petrified wood in the Northwest! Perfect, […]
Unboxing A Petrifying Fossil
SiS HYPNOTIC GLOWING RAINBOW 16 Arizona Petrified Wood Slab -Fossil Araucaria
It’s hard not to love the beautiful natural color in this amazing fossil wood and this piece is as colorful as they get! The beautiful ancient growth rings provides a gorgeous contrast to the vibrant 100% natural agate shades that preserved this 200 million year old tree. The color in this magnificent specimen simply has […]