Petrified Timber in the Badlands

Scattered pieces of petrified wood emerge from the weathered badlands of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Viewed from above, ancient fossilized logs and fragments lie among deeply eroded slopes, gravel, and pale channels carved through the desert terrain. The scene offers a glimpse of how naturally exposed petrified wood remains embedded throughout this rugged landscape, where erosion continues to reveal remnants of a forest that existed more than 200 million years ago.
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