Quartz crystals which grew in the cracks of a piece of colorful fossilized wood of the Petrified Forest state park, Escalante, Utah, USA

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Quartz crystals which grew in the cracks of a piece of colorful fossilized wood of the Petrified Forest state park, Escalante, Utah, USA. It was part of a conifer which were caught in a flood during the upper Triassic epoch. During the petrifying process the cellulous were replaced by Bentonite clays, derived from volcanic ash, which gave it its spectacular colors.

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Size: 4000px × 3000px
Location: Petrified Forest state park, Utah, USA
Photo credit: © Marieke Peche / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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