Petrified wood

Connected Sites: 5

Definition

WHS where petrified trees or petrified wood can be seen; petrified wood is "the name given to a special type of fossilized wood, the fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation" (wiki)

Contributor

Proposed by Els Slots

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Connected Sites

  • Miguasha National Park
    Miguasha National Park
    Canada
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.44
    48
    5

    Fossil evidence of Archaeopteris at Miguasha includes not only impressions of its fern-like fronds but also pieces of carbonized and petrified trunks. (source)
  • Lake Turkana Parks
    Lake Turkana Parks
    Kenya
    Inscribed: 1997
    2.64
    11
    1

    "including Mount Sibiloi, the site of the remains of a petrified forest possibly 7 million years old" (AB ev)
  • Joggins Fossil Cliffs
    Joggins Fossil Cliffs
    Canada
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.77
    73
    8

    Holds many types of fossilized trees, including tree trunks (source)
  • Yellowstone
    Yellowstone
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1978
    4.49
    215
    12

    most notably found on Specimen Ridge and Mount Amethyst (source)
  • Ischigualasto / Talampaya
    Ischigualasto / Talampaya
    Argentina
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.63
    36
    7

    Both parks include petrified wood. At Ischigualasto Provincial Park, visitors can observe impressive petrified tree trunks (wiki).