Fossil Wood - Zimbabwe
 
Origin: Petrified Forest, Gokwe South District, Midlands Province, Zimbabwe
 
Specimen Size: 137 mm diameter, 320 grams
 
These beautiful specimens of Zimbabwean fossil wood comes from a petrified forest, where nice logs of the rare Woodworthia (a primitive conifer) and Rhexoxylon (a seed fern) have been preserved. The petrified logs of Woodworthia is usually found in shades of beige, brown and black. From this locality chrome-rich specimens can have beautiful green colours.

This fossil wood slices was hand polished on one side in Zimbabwe and comes with a display stand to display your specimen right away.
 
Fossil wood (Petrified wood) was formed in a slow process known as petrification, derived from the Greek word “petro”, meaning rock or stone. A process in which the organic remains of vegetation or wood, in anaerobic conditions, are replaced with minerals and turned into stone.