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Petrified Forest

British

noun

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

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Petrified Forest

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

"Since starting fieldwork at Petrified Forest in 2014, we have collected over 3,000 fossils from the Sonselasuchus bonebed, and it doesn't seem to show any signs of petering out," Professor Sidor states.

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

Driving and living in a recreational vehicle, they visited White Sands and Petrified Forest National Parks in New Mexico and Arizona before heading to California, Oregon and Washington.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

For otherwise they could take her apart piece by piece the way souvenir hunters chipped off Teotihuacn or walked off with the Petrified Forest.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills

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