Petrified Forest
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A petrified forest is a forest in which tree trunks have fossilized as petrified wood
Petrified wood
Petrified wood is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. It is the result of a tree having turned completely into stone by the process of permineralization...

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Petrified Forest may refer to:
  • Lake Macquarie Petrified Forest
    Lake Macquarie Petrified Forest
    The Lake Macquarie Petrified Forest is a petrifed pine tree forest at Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.The petrified forest was first referred to in print within a grammar of the local Aboriginal people published in Sydney during 1834 by missionary Reverend Lancelot Edward Threlkeld...

    , Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
  • Mississippi Petrified Forest
    Mississippi Petrified Forest
    Mississippi Petrified Forest is a petrified forest located near Flora, Mississippi in the United States. It is currently privately owned and open for public visitation. The forest is believed to have been formed 36 million years ago when fir and maple logs washed down an ancient river channel to...

    , Mississippi, United States
  • Petrified Forest (California), California, United States
  • Petrified Forest National Park
    Petrified Forest National Park
    Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. The park's headquarters are about east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 , which parallels a railroad line, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park...

    , Arizona, United States
  • Ginkgo/Wanapum State Park
    Ginkgo/Wanapum State Park
    Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park/Wanapum Recreational Area is a state park at Vantage, Washington including 27,000 feet of freshwater shoreline on the Wanapum Reservoir on the Columbia River. Petrified wood was discovered in the region in the early 1930s, which led to creation of the park...

    , Washington, United States
  • Petrified forest of Lesbos, Lesbos, Greece
  • Petrified Forest of Donechina, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
  • Petrified Forest near Twyfelfontein
    Twyfelfontein
    Twyfelfontein , officially known as ǀUi-ǁAis , is a site of ancient rock engravings in the Kunene Region of north-western Namibia...

    , Namibia


Petrified Forest may also refer to:
  • The Petrified Forest
    The Petrified Forest
    The Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film, starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. A precursor of film noir, it was adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's 1936 stage play of the same name...

    , a 1936 film
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