Stock photography picture of Petrified Wood Detailed View

AK0214 - Licenced Caption Petrified Wood Detailed View Description The Petrified Forest National Park Arizona USA is a high dry tableland that was once a vast floodplain Fallen tress washed into the floodplain Silt mud and volcanic ash covered the logs cutting off the oxygen and slowing the decay Groundwater seeped through the logs and replaced the wood tissues with silica deposits The silica crystallized into quartz and the logs were preserved as petrified wood This is believed to have occurred in the Late Triassic Period about 225 million years ago Keywords Petrified, Forest, National, Park, Arizona, USA, America, West, United, States, Dry, Dessert, Arid, Barren, Science, Wood, Stone, Rock, Silica, Crystal, Crystallized, Quartz, Preservation, Environment, Nature, Outdoor, Triassic, Period, Log, Tree, Close, Up, Details, Trunk, Colorful, Colourful, Red, Yellow, White, Ecosystems, Ecology, Natural, Outdoor, Day, Conservation, Bark, Jill, Stephenson, Southwest, US, Old, Aged, Ancient, Geology, Horizontal