Petrified Forest

British

noun

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

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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

Our three-hour drive through New Mexico was simultaneously brief and exhausting, so by the time we got to Petrified Forest National Park we were feeling a bit restless.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

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

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2023

Either way, be sure to pass through the Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park right off I-90 to see the fossilized remains of the ginkgo tree in its natural habitat.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2022

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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