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Description: | A specimen of apatized (silicified) wood from the West Indies. The specimen is well preserved and brown in colour. Two sides of the specimen have been cut and polished to reveal a clear cross section through the specimen. Many fractures can be seen running through the polished side of the specimen. The uncut sides display a wood like texture with many variations of brown. The large side has small pale brown square and rectangular shaped features measuring up to 31mm x 9mm. These are possibly formed due to the fracturing which has run through the specimen. The cut and polished side shows the wood as fibrous brown areas with black mineralisation present within. In between the areas of wood are sections of dark brown to orange and dark red which are transparant. AR/CB
Specimen of Apatized (Silicified) wood from the West Indies | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Dudley Museums Service | Rights holder: | Dudley Museums Service | Subjects: | Geology | Temporal: | Unknown | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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