Petrified Wood

Object/Artifact

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Crater Rock Museum

Name/Title

Petrified Wood

Entry/Object ID

78.58.58

Description

A piece of petrified wood from Sweet Home, Oregon (west-central Oregon) showing grain. Color: shades of orange-brown. Middle of polished side shows a darker, more opaque area of wood. One end of piece shows interrupted grain pattern with silicate filler. The other end shows a small section with a more opaque brown wood that interrupts the grain pattern. Probably from Oligocene epoch, Tertiary period, Cenozoic era (~ 40 mya)

Collection

Delmar Smith Collection

Dimensions

Width

7.6 cm

Length

21.6 cm