Wood Boxes

Wood BoxesRound wood boxes. Each box is 5 inches in diameter with the lid adding additional size. Each box lid is painted with high quality acrylic paint using the bloom process and finished with a coat of Stone Coat resin. The base of the box is stained lightly. Artist: Cindy Green

Dinosaurs first appeared in the Triassic period (251

They grow in a long cone shape like a bull’s horn

It is a form of mudrock approximately 150 million years old

Photographer:  Cindy Green

The petrification process occurs underground when wood becomes buried in water

then backed with 3/16 basalt for stability and beauty

When the minerals completely replaced the organic tissue

metamorphic

both famous for their exceptionally well-preserved fossils

It is an opaque

Back of stone is not polished

They are an excellent index fossil inasmuch as linking the rock layer in which a particular species or genus is found to specific geologic time periods is often possible