Wonderful Petrified Wood Sphere on a Custom Stand PS 522

Wonderful Petrified Wood Sphere on a Custom Stand PS 522Wonderful Petrified wood sphere. Petrified wood is a type of fossilized wood where all the organic materials have been replaced with minerals, typically silica (such as quartz), calcite, or pyrite, while retaining the original structure of the wood. This process occurs over millions of years through a combination of sedimentation, burial, and mineralization. Petrified wood forms when trees are buried under layers of sediment in an environment with