Close Texture Red Petrified Wood Stock Image

Close view of the texture of some Petrified Wood. Liked how the the different shades of red, yellow, white all played across the cut surface. Image taken outside of Canon City Colorado. Petrified wood is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. It is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having completely transitioned to stone by the process of permineralization. All the organic materials have been replaced with minerals mostly a silicate, such as quartz