Imagine that you walk in a natural place
that have been saved by the time since the days of dinosaurs and you
are surrounded by the same trees that were surrounded by hundreds of
centuries!
This place is already in Arizona - United States of America at where the
Petrified Forest is. It is one of the most important sites in the world
because they contain important and valuable fossils for millions of
years ago!
These petrified trunks in these pictures was green trees surrounding
the dinosaurs and unknown creatures in the Triassic since immemorial
time , since 225 million years!(There is no error number)
But how do these trees petrified ? And what is the reason of its survival all these years?
These trees are formed and saved all this time under the ash and the
volcanic mud. The scientists say that volcanic eruptions have uprooted
these trees and filled it up to lie under the volcanic sediment to
hardens in a very slowly manner for millions of years over the years,
and then passed over this region a time which was covered with salt
water as part of the Ocean but it turned into a flowing rivers which led
to the erosion of about 2,600 feet of volcanic sediments showing slowly
the petrified trunks of trees bearing to us the fragrant of the
distant past.
The volcanic sediment Interacted with trees trunks to form the
transparent quartz stone, but the metals deposited from the water that
passed through it at one time gave these trees a rosy tinge stones in
varying degrees as we see in these photos:
There is no doubt that there are millions of trunks that are still
buried under the blocks of volcanic sediment , and also there are a lot
of creatures that are petrified and preserved by the ash and volcanic
mud. The Botanists was discovered a round 150 species of species of
plants, which confirms that this area was in the past a tropical area
fulled of trees and exotic creatures , and also they discovered
scrawling animals like the
Botanists animal which we know these days.