Petrified Forest National Park is world famous for it's impressive collection of colourful quartz laden petrified wood, but this park is most certainly a lot more than just petrified wood, it is an international learning centre for palaeontologist's throughout the world.
The Petrified Forest sits proudly in the arid lands of Arizona's Painted Desert, but the dry rugged badlands that you see today, did not exist here in the Triassic Period 225 million years ago.
What was to be Arizona in the ... Read More
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Petrified Forest National Park is world famous for it's impressive collection of colourful quartz laden petrified wood, but this park is most certainly a lot more than just petrified wood, it is an international learning centre for palaeontologist's throughout the world.
The Petrified Forest sits proudly in the arid lands of Arizona's Painted Desert, but the dry rugged badlands that you see today, did not exist here in the Triassic Period 225 million years ago.
What was to be Arizona in the ... Read More
