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Petrified Wood Cabochons                       Click on image for details
Petrified wood is the fossilized remains of trees.  The original wood has been replaced by minerals.

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Australian Peanut Wood Cabochons                   Click on image for details

Petrified Peanut Wood is a rare type of petrified wood from Western Australia it comes from trees which grew 70 million years ago in the Cretaceous period.  Peanut wood refers not to the type of tree, but to the appearance of the peanut shaped light color markings against the blackish background of this petrified wood.  Peanut wood was created from wood which washed into the ocean and became infested with small marine clams that bore into wood.  Eventually the wood sank to the ocean floor, where the bore holes filled with sediment, and later petrified.  This unique process created a uniquely beautiful petrified wood.  Peanut wood has beautiful glossy shine when polished, and the lighter beige colored markings are striking against the black background.

Petrified Palmwood Cabochons                       Click on image for details

Petrified palmwood was formed from the trunks of palm trees which grew during the Oligocene epoch around 30 million years ago.  Petrified Palmwood is most common in the Toledo Bend area shared by eastern Texas and western Louisiana. Found near fossils of marine life along prehistoric beaches, when the Gulf Coast was further north.