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Tales from the Road
06/30/09
Finally we stumbled upon a chance to see some good specimens of petrified wood when we took a short hike up a small mesa in Escalante Petrified Forest State Park.
You can see John in the first two photos below, touching the rocks that were formerly tree trunks millions of years ago. The trees fell into mud flats and silt deposits built up around them, which protected the wood from decomposing. Then over the millenia, minerals gradually replaced the wood fibres so what was wood is now a statue of colourful rock that looks almost like jewels up close (shown in the last two photos). Amazing colours!
July 7th, 2009 at 3:31 pm Wow! I like the picture of John. “I claim this piece of wood in the name of Canada! Now how do I move the darn thing?” LOL