Beautiful Arizona Petrified Wood Pendant

This is a beautiful, petrified wood and sterling silver pendant. The petrified wood comes from Arizona and is Late Triassic in age or approximately 225 million years old.

Petrified wood, or agatized wood is wood that's been fossilized through the process of permineralization. It must be buried rapidly before it decays. .All the organic materials is replaced with minerals (mostly silicates), while retaining the original structures in the wood.