Variety of petrified wood

Color in petrified wood, fossilized trees, are found on every continent. Some of the most colorful and largest specimens can be found right here in the United States. The fossilized conifers found in Northern Arizona are perhaps the most beautiful specimens found anywhere in the world.
Not only is there color in wood that is spactacular, there is petrified wood that is solid black, jet black. Red or yellow colors come from iron oxides and blues, purples, and blacks come from manganese oxides.

Oregon wood is often very beautiful in appearance. Wood from Oregon presents a vast array of colour and variety. Oak is a very common type of wood. Some of the most desirable Oaks in the world are found in Oregon (Swartz Canyon, Stinking Water, Dechutes River). A Well known paleobotonist once identified 60 different species in one acre of land. IN ONE ACRE!

McDermitt, in Southeast Oregon close to the Nevada border is famous for it's beautiful and well preserved petrified Cherry wood.

Another famous place for petrified wood are the Sweet Home deposits in the western foothills of the Cascade Mountain range. The wood is often, but not always, well agatized and extremely well preserved. Very unusual is an agate replacement where the tree rotted before being petrified, and the void it left in the ashen earth was slowly filled in with agate.

The wood -mostly conifers, are from the Triassic geologic age. Petrified wood from Madagascar is shown in every rock show. Including the famous Quartzite AZ rock show, where the slice in the picture came from. The colour varies from brown to yellow and red. Some pieces are grey, violet or have a green touch. Like the petrified forest of Cairo there are no roots, small limbs or petrified leaves found at this petrified forest. Collecting petrified wood is fun and very interesting and just about everybody can have a piece or two.