Petrified Forest


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Pet·ri·fied Forest

 (pĕt′rə-fīd′)
A section of the Painted Desert in eastern Arizona containing stonelike trees dating from the Triassic Period.
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Petrified Forest

n
(Placename) a national park in E Arizona, containing petrified coniferous trees about 170 000 000 years old
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By: Mahmoud Oraby CAIRO -- 1 September 2017: In cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Housing, the government agreed to develop the Petrified Forest protectorate in New Cairo.
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At The Petrified Forest in the west of the island, we walked down hundreds of steps expecting to find a vast tract of trees, the legacy of a volcanic eruption 20 million years ago.
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One day last summer park archaeologist Bill Reitze set off in his truck to explore a new section of Petrified Forest. And there, at this previously unexplored site, in a dusty shallow pit in front of some sandstone structures, he discovered a mysterious and rare cache of seven axe heads.
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One such relic, the petrified forest that lies preserved in the sands of Borth, in Ceredigion, is thought to be around 6,000 years old.
'Our heritage trees at risk from weather and human vagaries' To some they are simply humble trees - but a movement is growing to recognise these natural monuments as being just as historically valuable as any castle or stately home. Sally Williams reports

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