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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.
A piece of petrified wood in situ, Highlands Ranch, Colorado. The Denver Basin contains relatively few late Paleocene-age strata–with many dating to older periods–but laser ablation sampling in 2015 compared with a core sample from Castle Pines 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) away has been interpreted as indicating this more recent date.
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.
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Mississippi Petrified Forest is a petrified forest located near Flora, Mississippi, in the United States.It is privately owned and open for public visits. The forest is believed to have been formed 36 million years ago when fir and maple logs washed down an ancient river channel to the current site where they later became petrified. [1]
The ridge is known for its abundance of amethyst, opal and petrified wood. It was referred to as Specimen Mountain by local miners and was probably named by prospectors well before 1870. [ 2 ] The south side of the ridge is traversed by the 18.8-mile (30.3 km) Specimen Ridge Trail between Tower Junction and Soda Butte Creek .
Fossil wood may or may not be petrified, in which case it is known as petrified wood or petrified tree. The study of fossil wood is sometimes called palaeoxylology, with a "palaeoxylologist" somebody who studies fossil wood. The fossil wood may be the only part of the plant that has been preserved, with the rest of the plant completely unknown ...