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The National Fossil Wood Park, Tiruvakkarai is a notified National Geo-heritage Monument located in the Villupuram District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and is maintained by the Geological Survey of India. [1] The park was established in 1940 [2] and is located 1 km east of Thiruvakkarai [3] [4] village on the road between Tindivanam and ...
National Fossil Wood Park, Sathanur [1] is a National Geo-heritage Monument of India [2] [3] [4] located at Sathanur in Perambalur district, Tamil Nadu.This park is located within Sathanur panchayat and has a fossilized tree trunk, which was discovered in 1940 by the geologist M. S. Krishnan of the Geological Survey of India, who hailed from Tanjore.
Amkhoi Fossil Park is a fossil park located near Illambazar in the Birbhum District of West Bengal, India. It contains fossilized wood 15 to 20 million years of age and is officially recognized by the State Forest Department of West Bengal. [1]
Akal Wood Fossil Park is a National Geological Monument of India located in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan. [2] It is also a Biodiversity Heritage Site.. It is 21 hectares in extent and is located in Akal village, 17–18 km southeast of Jaisalmer city, and 1 km off the NH-68 Jaisalmer-Barmer road, on a stretch of about 10 km 2 of bare hillside. [3]
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Petrified wood has also been discovered in Dholavira in Kutch, Gujarat, dating back to 187–176 million years. [24] Japan – there is a fossilized forest preserved at Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum; Indonesia – petrified wood covers several areas in Banten and also in some part of Mount Halimun Salak National Park.
English: This piece of petrified wood was found near Monarch Boulevard in southeastern Highlands Ranch and is an example of petrified wood as found in the northern portions of the Cherokee Ranch petrified forest. The piece is picture in situ. Many other wood fossils in this area can be found protruding from the ground and sometimes laying atop it.
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