Petrified Wood Slab Sphalerite The unique dark sugar quartz

The unique dark sugar quartz matrix evokes interstellar scenes of distant star clusters and nebulae offsetting the brilliant shine of the calcite crystals it contains

which over the course of millions of years becomes solid while retaining the semitransparent yellowish hue of tree sap

and blues as well as the more commonly encountered clear or pale white

This Fossil has been broken and repaired

Petrified Wood Slab Sphalerite The unique dark sugar quartzPerhaps the most well known fossil material in the world, petrified wood is not wood at all but rather the fossilized remnants of trees from millions of years ago. Tree trunks, limbs, and branches that died under conditions that favor fossilization gradually become replaced with minerals until what remains is a replica of the original piece of wood consisting entirely of mineral material. Like the trees they capture the form of, each is unique and