Petrified Forest

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The living and the petrified

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Let's see... which is older?

This photo and the one below show areas that used to be covered with petrified wood. Park officials say that petrified wood is illegally removed at 3000 lbs a month.

I don't know what it is about this crusty old feller, but he is the one I liked the most out of all those I focused on.

It is not wood that makes petrified wood colorful, but the chemistry of the petrifying groundwater that covered it back when the area was tropical forests many millions of years ago. The pink is Manganese; red, brown, and yellow are Iron Oxides

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