Petrified tree Petrified Forest National Park Arizona EXPLORED
220 million years ago by a freakish combination of events a swarth of forest was quickly deeply buried deep enough where there was no oxygen and bacteria to rot the wood away and over the centuries molecules of wood were replaced by minerals to create one of the greatest known deposits of such stones in the world. This particular fossilized tree is close to forty feet long making it one the largest specimens in the world.
Petrified tree Petrified Forest National Park Arizona EXPLORED
220 million years ago by a freakish combination of events a swarth of forest was quickly deeply buried deep enough where there was no oxygen and bacteria to rot the wood away and over the centuries molecules of wood were replaced by minerals to create one of the greatest known deposits of such stones in the world. This particular fossilized tree is close to forty feet long making it one the largest specimens in the world.