Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346
Jasper Forest at Petrified Forest NP
Aerial view looking south from the Navajo Reservation (foreground) across the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest National Park, and Adamana, Arizona
Painted Desert & Petrified Forest National Park, from the window of a commercial flight, 2007
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Petrified wood is the name given to a special type of fossilized wood, the fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. Petrifaction, is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having been replaced
Petrified Forest National Park
…Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands…
Polished slice of a petrified tree from the Late Triassic Period (approximately 230 million years ago) found in Arizona. The remains of insects can be detected in an enlarged image.
Petrified log at the Petrified Forest National Park
Microscopic view of petrified Callixylon wood
Petrified wood mineralized with carnotite from St. George, Utah