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	Petrified Forest National Park Arizona
		However, thick pine forests and cool mountain country is within relatively close driving distance in Flagstaff and the White Mountains area of Arizona.
		The Petrified Forest is home to some of the most impressive fossils ever found and more are being discovered each year as erosion exposes new evidence.
		There is no doubt that millions of pounds of petrified logs still remain buried deep into the ground.
	www.arizona-leisure.com /petrified-forest.html (1052 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park
		Petrified Forest National Park is one of Arizona's most fascinating destinations, and a must for anyone with an interest in geology.
		Removal of petrified wood or other objects from the park is illegal and subject to substantial penalties.
		Petrified Forest is a geologists' dream come true, but less academically inclined visitors will also find plenty to enjoy.
	southwest-vacation-travel.net /petrified-forest-national-park (382 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
		With one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of 225 million year old fossils, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.
		Petrified Forest National Park has one of the best geologic and fossil records of the Late Triassic in the world.
		As part of the Petrified Forest National Park Learning Center, a monthly lecture series is held on the first Wednesday of each month.
	www.nps.gov /pefo (254 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park Information Page
		Petrified Forest National Park was first established as a National Monument on 08 Dec 1906 when Teddy Roosevelt signed the proclamation.
		Descendants of these early residents of Petrified Forest might be found in the historic pueblos in the surrounding region, the Hopi pueblos about 100 km to the northwest or the Zuni pueblos about 70 km to the east in western New Mexico.
		Petrified Forest National Park contains the greatest known concentration of solar calendars, with 16 of the sites being in or immediately adjacent to the park, and has been key to understanding their nature.
	www.petrified.forest.national-park.com /info.htm (3597 words)

	Petrified Forest
		In addition to the beautiful landscape, Petrified Forest National Park is home to the countless petrified logs for which the park is named.
		Petrified wood can be formed in many different ways, but ideal conditions are needed.
		This lack of facilities combined with the park’s remote location makes Petrified Forest less of a destination, and more of a roadside attraction for those who happen to be driving I-40, perhaps to the Grand Canyon.
	users.gurulink.com /wildebeest/petrified_forest.htm (1431 words)

	Petrified Forest
		Petrified National Forest is located near the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau in eastern Arizona.
		Petrified Forest National Park is dominated by the same erosional features that are characteristic of most of the arid Colorado Plateau.
		A vast majority of the petrified wood has been eroded from the Triassic age Upper and Lower Petrified Forest Members of the Chinle Formation.
	www.runet.edu /~geol-web/Parvs_New_Dept_Web/myweb/petrified_forest.htm (469 words)

	Petrified Forest
		The fossilised forest of Lesvos was developed during Late Oligocene to Lower - Middle Miocene, due to the intense volcanic activity in the area.
		The formation of the petrified forest is directly related to the intense volcanic activity in Lesvos island during late Oligocene - middle Miocene.
		In the case of the Petrified forest of Lesvos, the fossilisation was perfect due to favourable fossilisation conditions.
	www.aegean.gr /Petrified_Forest/NoFrames/petriforest.htm (2702 words)

	The Petrified Forest - Virtual Trail
		The Petrified Forest is a privately owned attraction, with a fine museum devoted to the origin of the fossils and geology of the area.
		Most are gray to white, the typical color of petrified wood here and display growth rings on closer examination and ridges on the surface formed by the thick bark of the original redwood trees.
		The first petrified tree exposed is called the Pit tree because it is exposed in a 15 foot deep pit.
	www.petrifiedforest.org /virtual.html (1188 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park travel guide - Wikitravel
		Petrified Forest National Park [1] is a United States National Park that is located in eastern Arizona, in the Southwest region of the United States.
		Petrified Forest was set aside as a national monument in 1906 to preserve and protect the petrified wood for its scientific value.
		Petrified Forest National Park is located off of Interstate 40 in northeastern Arizona, 259 miles from Phoenix and 204 miles west of Albuquerque.
	wikitravel.org /en/Petrified_Forest_National_Park (1819 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park - US-Parks.com
		Petrified Forest National Park is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.
		Petrified Forest National Park is one of the best examples of the Late Triassic (225 million years ago) in the world.
		The park is 93,533 acres, with a recently expanded boundary increasing the acreage to 218,533 acres.
	www.us-parks.com /petrified (276 words)

	Ginkgo Petrified Forest/Wanapum Recreational Area State Park (page 1 of 2)
		Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park is a 7,470-acre park with year-round camping at Wanapum recreational area.
		Petrified wood was discovered in the region in the early 1930s, which led to creation of the park as a national historic preserve.
		Petrified wood from many different trees are common in the area, but specimens of petrified Ginkgo are rare.
	www.parks.wa.gov /parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Ginkgo+Petrified+Forest%2FWanapum+Recreational+Area (376 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park: Petrified Wood
		Remnants of giant trees from ancient forests of the Triassic Period over 200 million years old, these logs turned from wood to rock after the trees were buried under layers of sand and silt.
		Most of the petrified logs in the park were from trees of the variety Araucarioxylon, large trees which reached 100 feet in height and 6-8 feet in diameter.
		This petrified tree originally lay flat on the ground until the arroyo which now runs beneath it was formed by erosion.
	www.shannontech.com /ParkVision/PetForest/PetWood.html (687 words)

	Petrified Forest and Painted Desert : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Petrified wood has long fascinated people, and although it can be found in almost every state, the "forest" of downed logs in northeastern Arizona is by far the most extensive.
		Though there is enough petrified timber scattered across this landscape to fill a forest, it is, in fact, in the form of logs and not standing trees.
		When, in the 1850s, this vast treasure trove of petrified wood was discovered scattered like kindling across the landscape, enterprising people began exporting it wholesale to the East.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/petrifiedforestandpainteddesert/1936010001.html (468 words)

	Glimpses of Our National Monuments (Petrified Forest)
		The deposits called the Petrified Forests of Arizona extend over an area of more than 100 square miles and present great variety both in structure of the log-bearing strata and in characteristics of the petrified wood.
		The region may be properly described as an eroded deposit of petrified drift logs, or the buried, petrified, and resurrected remains of a forest that grew somewhere else millions of years ago.
		The First Forest, the smallest of the three, contains sections and fragments of logs that were once bedded in the upper layers of clay and sandstone which have now crumbled away with the exception of some knolls and spurs.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/glimpses2/glimpses22.htm (1261 words)

	Petrified Forest safaris, lodges and wildlife tours
		The Petrified Forest is situated west of Khorixas in Namibia and is where the dead and "living" fossils such as the petrified trees and the Welwitchia can be seen.
		The "forest" lies on a small sandstone rise and covers an area of 800m by 300m in the Aba-Huab River valley.
		The name "Petrified Forest' is a misnomer the trees did not grow where they are found.
	www.ecoafrica.com /african/travel/PetrifiedForest.html (389 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park
		The name of the park, and its major reason for creation, is the rich collection of petrified wood found mainly in the south portion of the park.
		The petrified wood found in the park began its existence as large trees from an ancient forest some 225 years ago.
		The other well-known feature of Petrified Forest National Park is the Painted Forest found in the northern section of the park.
	www.shannontech.com /ParkVision/PetForest/PetForest.html (1436 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park, Holbrook, Arizona
		However, the petrified logs are extremely beautiful with most unexpectedly bright colors, and the park is adjacent to the scenic Painted Desert so it is well worth a visit especially as it is quite easily reached, being close to the main east-west route interstate 40.
		Rainbow Forest: The area with the most densely-scattered petrified wood is Rainbow Forest, near the south entrance of the national park.
		Camping: Partly to protect the natural resources, there is no NPS campsite in Petrified Forest National Park; the only camping within the park is for backpackers in the Painted Desert wilderness area, north of the interstate.
	www.americansouthwest.net /arizona/petrified_forest/national_park.html (958 words)

	The Petrified Forest of Lesvos island, Greece
		The age of the Petrified Forest is estimated to be around 20.000.000 years.
		An ancient period of high volcanic activity caused a chain of chemical reactions and the petrifaction of the forest was effected.
		The broad area of the Petrified Forest occupies 15.000 hectares of the western part of Lesvos and has been pronounced by the state as "National Forest".
	www.greeknet.com /forest.htm (348 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona - American West Travelogue
		Most notable are the remains of a huge conifer forest which dominated the lush Triassic landscape and now literally litter the landscape as the Petrified Forest.
		Petrified Forest National Park is in northeast Arizona off of Interstate-40, about 25 miles east of the town of Holbrook, Arizona.
		Petrified Forest National Park also features gorgeous fields of bejeweled fossilized wood, Indian ruins, and rock art.
	www.amwest-travel.com /awt_petrified.html (969 words)

	The Petrified Forest
		Petrified Forest is located in rural Berks County, Pennsylvania, in a 1781 stone barn and grist mill.
		While it is still soft, colors are applied to the clay, and the leaf design is arranged.
		When the clay is firm enough to handle, the artist adds the additional colors and does the final shaping before firing the clay at over 2000° F. The Petrified Forest
	petrified-forest.com (248 words)

	Walking Guide to the Petrified Forest
		discovery of the major trees by Petrified Forest Charlie in 1870.
		On most Sundays at 2pm, Dave Storck, the manager of the Petrified forest, leads a hike to the Meadow area on a trail that leads northwest from the Giant tree through a locked gate.
		Here you can see natural occurrance of petrified wood, a meadow of wildflowers at the right time of year (late march-april and into may) and two main attractions, Mount saint Helena and the Ashfall.
	www.sonoma.edu /geology/wright/PFguide.html (1335 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park Overview
		Army surveyors were the first non-natives to travel through the area in the mid-19th century, and their accounts of crystal forests and the vividly hued badlands lured droves of sightseers and souvenir hunters.
		Tons of petrified wood were carried off and many more logs were destroyed as entrepreneurs mined and even dynamited them to get at their quartz and amethyst cores.
		From the Rainbow Forest near the southern park boundary to the Painted Desert's vistas in the north, many points of interest are less than a mile's hike from the park road.
	www.randmcnally.com /rmc/explore/exploreParkOverview.jsp?poi_id=204000001 (997 words)

	Petrified Forest Arizona
		Rocks do not recommend the land to the tiller of the soil, but they recommend it to those who reap a harvest of another sort- the artist, the poet, the walker, the student, the lover of all primitive open-air things.
		The Petrified Forest is a hidden treasure in Arizona's East side.
		This is attached to the Petrified Forest and has a great display of colors on the canyon walls.
	www.weatherfriend.com /travel/arizona/petrifiedforest.htm (141 words)

	Escalante Petrified Forest State Park - EntradaUtah (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Escalante Petrified Forest State Park contains colorful petrified wood pieces that have mineralized in earlier centuries and can be found alongside the trails of the park.
		The 1 mi/1.6 km Petrified Forest trail Trail of Sleeping Rainbows offer the best way to see the small fragments and larger stumps that have been crystallized.
		On the Petrified Forest trail, large petrified wood pieces and logs appear after vigorously ascending a steep trail to the top of the plateau.
	www.entradautah.com /wiki/Escalante_Petrified_Forest_State_Park (435 words)

	Petrified Forest (1936)
		Forest shows its roots as a stage production since the vast majority of the action takes place in one room.
		The Petrified Forest appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		The participants discuss Bogart’s need for a screen success and his work in Forest, the film’s use of the western myth and the gangster genre, the early signs of film noir and the movie’s staging, and its ending and legacy.
	www.dvdmg.com /petrifiedforest.shtml (1618 words)

	Petrified Forest (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Petrified Forest was our next national park of call.
		Imagine these eroded cliffs and badlands as a heavily wooded tropical forest dating back to a time when this Arizona "dry zone" was close to the earth's equator.
		The Painted Desert Inn, however, was not the first structure built in the Petrified Forest.
	www.ajnordley.com /South-West/Petrified_Forest.html (353 words)

	Lesvos Petrified Forest and Natural history museum
		In the case of the Petrified Forest of Lesvos, the fossilization was perfect due to favorable fossilization conditions.
		In order to protect the Petrified Forest and ensure its proper management five terrestrial and marine areas, with fossil accumulations as well as all the isolated fossils within the area of 37.50 accrue, were declared as Protected Natural Monument with a special Presidential Degree (No 443 /1985).
		The Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest was established in 1994 to study, research, promote, preserve and conserve the unique Petrified Forest of Lesvos, a designated Protected Natural Monument.
	www.lesvos-safaritours.com /petrified.htm (336 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park - CreationWiki
		Petrified Forest is a U.S. National Park with a recently expanded boundary increasing the acreage to 218,533 acres.
		The park hosts one of the largest and most colorful collections of petrified wood in the world.
		The fossils are found strewn throughout the badlands of the Chinle Formation known as the Painted Desert.
	creationwiki.org /Petrified_Forest_National_Park (89 words)

	Washington Gemstone or Gem: Petrified Wood
		Most of the petrified wood in Washington grew during the Miocene Epoch, some 5 -12 million years ago, when the state was swampy and mild, and played host to vast forests of cypress, oak, elm, and ginkgo trees.
		The beautiful and varied colors of petrified wood are caused by the presence of other minerals that enter the wood in solution with the silica.
		Petrified wood is hereby designated as the official gem of the state of Washington.
	www.e-referencedesk.com /resources/state-gemstone/washington.html (689 words)

	Petrified Forest National Park in 576 images
		Arizona's Petrified Forest became a National Park on December 9, 1962.
		It preserves 93,533 acres of desert terrain holding a remarkable, colorful concentration of petrified wood.
		Petrified Wood mined from areas surrounding the park is available at shops around the park.
	www.untraveledroad.com /Petrified-Forest-National-Park.htm (280 words)

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