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Top; Figure 1: This photograph shows a piece of petrified wood with both white of opal
and brown and red of agate as a part of the silica replacement process.
Bottom; Figure 2: This single peaked mountain stone has canyons, lakes and a cave. The
stone measures 35 x 18 x 16 cm. and is displayed in a Maruzen suiban.
ernard of Clairvaux, a famous 12th century
Cistercian monk, wrote, “You will find
more laboring in the woods than you ever
will among books. Woods and stones will
Bteach you what you can never hear from
any master.” Bernard’s statement is certainly true of
fossilized wood which through the ages has formed
into striking and artful stones.
It is time to discover what Chinese collectors
discovered in China centuries ago, fossilized wood
can create amazing viewing stones. Fossilized wood
is a broad term preferred by many scientist and
geologist. A fossil is any evidence of life that has been
preserved in rock. Petrified wood is a fossil organism
that has been subjected to mineral replacement. For
the purposes of this article we will focus on stones
with mineral replacement commonly known as
petrified wood. The word “petrified” comes from the
Greek root word petra meaning “rock” or “stone.” So,
petrified wood is literally “wood turned into a rock.”
Petrified wood has long intrigued people. While some

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