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    ash beds. A forest where such material has petrified becomes known as a petrified forest. Petrified wood forms when woody stems of plants are buried...
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    Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing...
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    Petrifaction (redirect from Petrified)
    spaces with minerals. Petrified wood typifies this process, but all organisms, from bacteria to vertebrates, can become petrified (although harder, more...
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    found). Fossil wood may or may not be petrified, in which case it is known as petrified wood or petrified tree. The study of fossil wood is sometimes called...
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    The Lesvos Petrified Forest is a petrified wood forest on the island of Lesbos, Greece. The forest was formed from the fossilized remains of plants and...
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    fossilized as agate. The varied colors of the petrified wood are due to different minerals absorbed during petrification. Iron oxides contribute to the orange...
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  • Fayoum, Petrified wood protectorate in New-Cairo Area/ Cairo-Suez desert road & entire Western Desert of Egypt is covered in Petrified wood. This is...
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    National Park Service designated the Ginkgo Petrified Forest as a National Natural Landmark. Petrified wood was named the Washington state gem by the state...
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    Fossil (section Wood)
    imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the fossil record...
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    large petrified logs have been discovered on the Cherokee Ranch property; the castle on the ranch site includes more than 4,000 pieces of petrified wood in...
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  • the state dinosaur is Sonorasaurus thompsoni yet the state fossil is petrified wood. The two first states to designate a state fossil were Nebraska and...
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    woods Log building Log cabin Log house Mineral bonded wood wool board Mjøstårnet Natural building Parquetry Pallet crafts Pellet fuel Petrified wood Pine...
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    Opal (redirect from Wood opal)
    where the wood has been completely replaced by opal. Other names for this opalized sheen-like wood are opalized wood and opalized petrified wood. It is often...
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    Palmoxylon (petrified palmwood) is an extinct genus of palm named from petrified wood found around the world. This genus is known in the fossil record...
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    An example of this process is the replacement of wood by silica (quartz or opal) to form petrified wood in which the substitution may be so perfect as to...
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    salt)". The wilderness has multicolored badlands, sandstone hoodoos, petrified wood and dinosaur bones, similar to those found in the nearby Bisti Badlands...
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    dinosaur bones are permineralized. Petrified wood: Permineralization is the first step in petrification. In petrification, the cellulose cell walls are completely...
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    precipitate or a diagenetic replacement, as in petrified wood. Chert is typically composed of the petrified remains of siliceous ooze, the biogenic sediment...
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    The Lemmon Petrified Wood Park & Museum is a roadside attraction located off U.S. 12 in Lemmon, South Dakota, which features large outdoor sculptures created...
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    that the Ark was "not uniformly petrified.": 113  Hagopian, however, believed the entire structure was "absolutely petrified," and that "Almighty God would...
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    2018. Retrieved January 13, 2018. Note: Sites are mentioned under the "Petrified-wood facts" column, which cites the Washington State Department of Natural...
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    acres) Petrified Forest National Park. There, these trunks are locally so abundant that they have been used as building materials. The petrified wood of this...
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    from the original on February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017. "Petrified Forest National Park". National Park Service. Retrieved March 23, 2010...
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    Turritella gastropods with elongated spiral shells. Similarly, coral, petrified wood, porous rocks and other organic remains can also form agate. Coldwater...
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    museums, both built entirely of petrified wood. The larger of the two is circular has a petrified grass floor along with petrified logs. Dinosaur claws, bird...
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  • Chrysoprase Dendritic agate Moss agate Fire agate (iridescent var.) Jasper Petrified wood Sard Citrine (var.) Druzy (var.) Flint (var.) Herkimer diamond (var...
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    village on the road between Tindivanam and Pondicherry. The park contains petrified wood fossils approximately 20 million years old, scattered throughout the...
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    The Chemnitz petrified forest is a petrified forest in Chemnitz, Germany, that is part of the Early Permian Leukersdorf Formation. Most of the trunks...
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  • looks merely weathered, as it has for decades, but seems closer to petrified wood." Tania Modleski, author of Clint Eastwood and Male Weepies, said, "[f]or...
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    age and unusual size they were initially misclassified as pieces of petrified wood. A more detailed analysis in 1999 revealed their true nature which resulted...
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