yellowstone petrified forest trail Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/yellowstone-petrified-forest-trail Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:23:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Yellowstone Petrified Trees http://travelsfinders.com/yellowstone-petrified-trees.html http://travelsfinders.com/yellowstone-petrified-trees.html#respond Sat, 25 Jun 2016 02:14:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=207239 South of the road is a remarkable phenomenon: high up on the slopes, trees that used to grow here have been turned to solid stone. This happened long before the caldera events that left us Yellowstone’s present-day thermal features. The trees became petrified; that is, the wood was converted to stone by dissolved minerals in water at the time when they were covered with volcanic lava, ash, and tremendous mudflows. This was during the Eocene epoch, 50 million years ago. Other areas contain petrified wood the best known in the United States is Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. But

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