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Petrified Forest

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noun

  1. a national park in E Arizona, containing petrified coniferous trees about 170 000 000 years old

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Good luck to Kroenke as he tries to resuscitate a franchise deader than a stump in the Petrified Forest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Professor Sidor was part of the excavation team that uncovered 950 fossils of Sonselasuchus in 2014 at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026

The site of this discovery is a fossil bed in a desert landscape of ancient rock in the Petrified Forest National Park.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025

The fossil was not the first Triassic period discovery Mr. Kligman had made at Petrified Forest National Park.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

This day we had an excursion to the Petrified Forest.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

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