• Option A, four views of an oval slice with high-contrast near-black, white, and tan pattern. It has good wood pattern on the sides. The piece has an uneven bottom. The final image shows it on a measuring mat, almost two and a half inches wide and about two inches deep.
  • Several slices of polished petrified wood arranged closely together, showing different heights, shapes, and marbled patterns of yellow, red, gray, and brown.
  • Option B, four views of an oval slice with light white, gray, and tan pattern. It has a cellular pattern that looks like molars along the edge, and the spaces between them are where there are cracks down the sides. The final image shows it sitting unevenly on a measuring mat, about two and a half inches in diameter.
  • Option C, four views of an oval slice with complex pattern of brown, dark brown and red brown tones. It has good smooth wood pattern on the sides. The final image shows it sitting unevenly on a measuring mat, about three by two inches in diameter.
  • Option D, four views of a off-round slice with complex swirling patterns in light yellow, brown, white and red. There is thin white veining in circular patterns. The piece has smooth wood on the sides that shows small details from the wood surface. The final image shows it sitting on a measuring mat, about two inches in diameter.
  • Option E, four views of an off-square slice with complex pattern of yellow brown swirled with red and yellows, with a light patch on one side and a smaller dark patch on the other side. It has rough wood pattern on the sides. The final image shows it sitting on a measuring mat, a bit over two inches.
  • Option F, four views of an off-oval slice with a light ring pattern of white, gray, and brown tones. The very edge is a deep rust-red color as if stained from the surface and bleeding into the center. It has smooth wood pattern on the sides. The final image shows it sitting on a measuring mat, about two inches in diameter.
  • Option G, four views of an off-round slice with a lovely rainbow color gradient. The body is a light almost green-tinted gray color, which deepens near the edges to a golden yellow, then a deep red at the very edge. In the center, there is hollow growth. The slice has smooth wood pattern on the sides. The final image shows it sitting on a measuring mat, almost two and a half inches in diameter
  • Option H, four views of an irregular slice of light yellow-brown color with detailed patterning in lighter and darker brown. The slice has linear wood pattern on the sides. The final image shows it sitting on a measuring mat, measuring almost two and a half by one and a half inches.
  • Option I, four views of an oval slice with vibrant pattern of red, yellow-brown, and light brown-gray tones. The piece has good wood pattern on the sides, with a knot visible. The final image shows it sitting on a measuring mat, measuring about two inches by an inch and a half.
  • Option J, four views of an oval slice with a smoke-like dark gray ring on a light background mottled with red-brown coloration. The piece has a rough wood pattern on the sides. The final image shows it sitting on a measuring mat, a bit over two and a half inches by almost two inches across.
  • Option K, four views of an elongated oval slice with a light brown ringed wood pattern and a dark brown crackled pattern over it. It has smooth lined wood pattern on the sides, and the back has a mottled white and brown broken surface. The final image shows it sitting on a measuring mat, measuring almost two and a half inches by about an inch and a half.
  • Option L, four views of a rounded-square slice with some patches of hollow growth in the center. The body color is a brown-gray with swirls of brown coming in from the sides and a black spot in one corner. The top isn't perfectly flat; on one end it slopes at an angle. It has rough wood pattern on the sides. The final image shows it sitting on a measuring mat, measuring about two and a half by two inches across.
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Petrified wood slices

Petrified wood slices

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Locale: Madagascar

Approx dimensions and weight:  Option A 2.25 x 1.75, 2" tall, 170g  B 2.5 x 2.25, 1.75" tall, 235g  C 3 x 2, 1" tall, 178g, D 2 x 1.75, 1.5" tall, 154g  E 2 x 1.75, 1.25" tall, 164g  F 2 x 1.75, 1.25" tall, 165g  G 2.25 x 2.25, 1.5" tall, 235g  H 2.25 x 1.5, 1.25" tall, 124g  I 2 x 1.5, 1.5" tall, 152g  J 2.5 x 1.75, 1.75" tall, 226g  K 2.25 x 1.5, 1" tall, 121g  L 2.5 x 2, 1.5" tall, 350g


Petrified wood is a form of fossilized wood where the organic material has been replaced with minerals. In these petrified wood stem slices, the organic material has been replaced with chalcedony: an opaque, colorful, cryptocrystalline form of quartz.

When well-formed, the minerals replicate the natural structure of the wood so that the rings, striations, and cell pattern are preserved. The palette is typically warm tones of red, brown, and yellow, but it can range into green or a bold contrast of black, grays, and white. Option L gets the ugly duckling discount for having no discernible pattern.

These slices have been polished on one side to best reveal their pattern, but left rough on the remainder of the piece. Details of the wood surface pattern and knots can be made out on the sides, and some pieces have hollow cores. Not all pieces sit flat due to the natural base.

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