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  2. Petrified forest, Khorixas - Wikipedia

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    Large petrified tree trunk Pieces of petrified wood next to a Welwitschia in Namibia. The Petrified forest, located 42 kilometres (26 mi) west of the Namibian town of Khorixas, on the C39 road, is a deposit of large tree trunks that have "turned to stone" through a process of diagenesis.

  3. Geology of Namibia - Wikipedia

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    The petrified forest near Khorixas in northwest Namibia is an impressive paleontological monument, which may serve as an already well protected geological site. Similarly, the Hoba Meteorite in northern Namibia, which is the largest known iron meteorite on Earth, is well protected as a national monument and attracts many visitors at the site ...

  4. Khorixas - Wikipedia

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    It was the capital of the Damaraland bantustan before Namibia's independence. [3] It is the administrative capital of Khorixas Constituency. Most of the inhabitants are from the Damara ethnic group. The town is located near the Petrified Forest, a deposit of petrified wood and well

  5. Best things to see and do at Petrified Forest and Painted ...

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    What's special about Petrified Forest and Painted Desert? All that petrified wood, for one thing. Plus dino fossils, petroglyphs and amazing scenery.

  6. Ecca Group - Wikipedia

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    Near the small town of Khorixas in Namibia there is a locally well-known national monument called the Petrified Forest. Petrified logs were brought into the area and are considered to have been sourced from the nearby deposits of the Huab Basin. [44] [45] [46] Fossil tree from the Permian Ecca Group of the Karoo Sequence at the petrified forest ...

  7. Petrified wood - Wikipedia

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    Chunk of petrified wood near El Kurru (Northern Sudan) Petrified log and Welwitschia at Namibia Petrified forest. Egypt – petrified forest in Cairo-Suez road, declared a national protectorate by the ministry of environment, also in the area of New Cairo at the Extension of Nasr City, El Qattamiyya, near El Maadi district, and Al Farafra oasis ...

  8. Why Petrified Forest National Park deserves to be a ... - AOL

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    Petrified Forest National Park may not ring a bell, even though more than half a million people visited last year, according to National Park Service data. “People come to Petrified Forest ...

  9. Twyfelfontein - Wikipedia

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    The name Twyfelfontein refers to the spring itself, to the valley containing the spring, and in the context of traveling and tourism also to a greater area containing nearby tourist attractions: the rock engravings, the Organ Pipes, Burnt Mountain, Doros crater, and the Petrified Forest. [10] The World Heritage Site covers the area of rock ...

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