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Petrified Forest

British  

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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The Painted Desert portion of Petrified Forest National Park includes broad vistas and richly varied mineral colors.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 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

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 Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)

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