Rare Peanut Wood, preformed lapidary slab, 38 x 23 x 7 mm, ancient petrified wood from Aust.no pits or fractures, ready to finish (0031)

Preformed and smoothed with a final 600 diamond grit, it has a luster polish and it's ready for a final mirror polish, 1 small pit on the front that blends in with the dark inclusions. Fracture line between color separation produces the appearance of hills in the distant. black stand is included. front and back are flat and smooth. It's also ready for jewelry, to be wirewrapped, placed in your specimen cabinet or used as a raw stone in metaphysics.

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PREFORMED SLAB DESCRIPTION

Peanut Wood (Teredo castings), brow and creme colored, triangle shape, 38 x 23 x 7 mm. Preformed to make it easier for you to cab. Rare petrified driftwood. no pits or fractures. No enhancements.
Peanut Wood is a rare and beautiful petrified wood from Australia. Rare because it is rarely mined, mainly because it required heavy equipment and the lack of water at the location. The lighter areas of the stone are made by a marine wood-boring bivalve named Teredo.

This is an ancient drift wood that sank to the mud at the bottom of the ocean and remained for millions of years. as a drift wood it is now found along the edges of the Kennedy Ranges about 100 miles inland from the coastal town of Carnarvon, Western Australia. The geological formation found in makes it around 120 million years old. The wood is of several varieties, the main ones being "Araucaria"...a conifer & podocarp, called Peanut wood because it resembled peanuts.