Impressionistic Peanut Wood Cretaceous Petrified Wood

Description: Peanut wood has a unique history. During the Cretaceous, the wood was washed into the ocean as driftwood. There a shellfish bivalve called Teredo, which bore into the wood, attacked it. When the wood became waterlogged it settled into the bottom of the ocean, got covered with mud and began the process of petrification. The white markings are the boreholes of the shellfish. The wood generally is black with the boreholes white. It is strikingly attractive, with a modern appearance, like an abstract impressionistic work of art.