Here’s a breathtaking and head scratching specimen all in one! This is one of the strangest Hubbard Basin petrified wood rounds I’ve ever had. It’s loaded with hematite and other minerals to provide a rich array of color and some strange, super-sized inclusions overlaying the detailed wood grain. The color spectrum represented in this log cross section is simply breathtaking and most unusual for this forest! I’ve only seen these types of inclusions in a couple of other logs from this site – they appear to be either mineral or organic filaments of some kind and they have always formed in a decayed part of the log when present. This is by far the largest example of this phenomenon I have ever seen in one of these fascinating logs! I’m at a loss to explain their origin, but they are colorful and beautiful and provide an extra source of fascination in a slab that is already a wonder to behold! This perfect slab is cut from remarkably well preserved and nicely shaped, colorful petrified spruce log and is polished to an absolutely mirror perfect finish. Here’s an absolutely gorgeous, flawless petrified wood round from one of the most prized petrified wood deposits ever discovered! If you aren’t familiar with the Hubbard Basin petrified wood from Nevada, you should be! It’s a very colorful variety, though true collectible pieces from this location are not plentiful. This piece has all of the best colors that these coveted specimens are famous for. The characteristic blue, white, red, black and gold along with a lot of other colors appear to have been painted into the stone with the single intention of drawing a gasp from the fossil wood collector on sight! Besides being beautifully colored, it’s also perfectly preserved. The flowing wood grain from this complete round starts at the heart (near bottom edge) and forms massive arcs through every region of this highly colorful wood. The cells are uncommonly well preserved for Hubbard Basin wood with virtually every colorful region showing excellent wood grain preservation right down to the ray cells within the growth rings! The detail in the lighter regions is washed out in the photo, but it’s easily visible in the actual stone. Hubbard Basin petrified wood is highly prized among fossil and gemstone collectors because of it’s uniquely beautiful blue color and gold, red, etc. It’s also some of the best agatized wood to be found and is sometimes even translucent (this round is in several regions). Wood is relatively scarce from this region and true collector pieces are very seldom encountered. The qualities that make a piece valuable are color, completeness, shape and fracture free – this piece has them all and is guaranteed to be one of the most unique Hubbard Basin specimens you’ll ever see! This is a nice, large cross section of petrified wood for this location – a very nicely sized display piece. Most of the logs in this deposit were larger spruce and other conifers. This round is complete, although most of these specimens were from softer wood species and like their cousins in Cherry Creek (Nevada’s other famous deposit) they tended to get “squashed” in the ground forming oblong rounds when cut. We work hard to find the best specimens from the most prized locations and then work with our magic to create a world class specimen for your collection. Our shop is unmatched in both the techniques and attention to detail to produce the finest petrified wood specimens available anywhere. Our work stands above that of the commercial vendors simply because we take the time to make each piece something we’d keep in our own collections which means you’ll be treated to a lustrous polish that still looks wet to the touch when you see this true collector gem! The piece is quite solid and meant to be handled. A quick squirt of windex will remove fingerprints from the glassy polished surface. This stone has been professionally cut and polished on a special lap that produces a flat face and a mirror perfect shine. The polish really is liquid perfect – a difference in the quality products Sticks-in-Stones has built its reputation on that others can only aspire to! This specimen is cut from the center of the log and is a perfect slab/plate. It measures about 16″ x 10 3/4″ wide across the mirror polished face. It’s cut about about 0.60 thick. Weight is 6.72 lbs. The item “SiS ODDLY PRESERVED 16+ Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Slab CRAZY INCLUSIONS” is in sale since Monday, December 2, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Rocks, Fossils & Minerals\Fossils\Vegetation\Petrified Wood”. The seller is “rockshop” and is located in Beaverton, Oregon. This item can be shipped worldwide.