A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Petrified tree stumps, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona |
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| Description | Petrified Forest National Park is located in the Painted Desert of northeast Arizona, and features one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood (also called silicified wood). Petrified wood forms when silica rich waters deposit opal or chalcedony in place of original organic tree material. |
| Location | USA ▹ Arizona. Near Flagstaff. Petrified Forest National Park. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2001-10-24. |
| Collection | A401118991V. |
| Key words | petrified |
| Tech details | 531 KB. Outcrop. Canon A1, Agfachrome 100. |
| GeoDIL number | 1695 |
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