Dakota Nature News and Information
- petrified wood bowl
Petrified Wood, a customer favorite
We love petrified wood and carry a carefully curated and choose selection of bookends, table tops, bowls and slices (should you be looking, but not seeing what you want please message us). Petrified wood is made up of almost solid quartz. The colors are produced by impurities in the quartz, such as iron, carbon, & manganese. It's name is from Greek root petro meaning "rock" or "stone”. It is the result of tree or tree-like plants having completely transitioned to stone by the process of permineralization. All the organic materials have been replaced completely by minerals, including silica dissolved from volcanic...