Petrified Wood Slab

Petrified Wood SlabPerhaps 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

Grape agate is a relatively new mineral and sought after by collectors due to its scarcity and vivid color

high shine mica and range in hue from nearly clear to classic sea green to deep blue

roughly 20 million years ago

Paradoxides sp

Fluorite is one of the most variable of all crystalline minerals

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

Amethyst is a form of Quartz which gets its beautiful purple tint from the substitution of silicone for iron due to irradiation

first on the surface and then from the glittering pyrite within

Harpes (Scotoharpes) Trilobite

where some truly impressive specimens like this very rarely emerge from the mines

This Fossil has been broken and repaired

resulting from the oxidation of its copper and sulfide components