Mature wood melkosloinaya, has shades from light brown to zheltovato-brown with a beautiful structure on a cut. It strong, durable, is steady against external influences. In due course wood of an oak darkens a little, that gives it a shade of noble olden time.
Oak wood - excellent building and podelochnyi a material: it goes on doors, window frames, various constructions and as bocharnyi, furniture, parquet and joiner's wood. Dries up rather slowly, at the accelerated drying it is inclined to treschinoobrazovaniyu.
These are oaks which grew 600 - 8 500 years ago, were lost under the influence of the natural reasons and have begun okamenevat' in gravel layers under water. Dark colour is caused by reactions of tannin with the water containing iron. Intensity of colouring depends on age. Present morenyi or a peat oak usually find at excavation of the drained lakes and bogs. It is very rare and expensive wood, on a fortress it does not concede gland. However on sale often there are fakes under morenyi an oak. Usually it is the ordinary oak wood processed by ammonia.
Colour bluish-black, but happens also brownish-black, how long logs laid in water. Wood in which black colour is underlined by the brown is most decorative.