Close-up view of the colorful petrified wood samples in the Petrified Forest state park, Escalante, Utah, USA
Close-up view of the colorful petrified wood samples in the Petrified Forest state park, Escalante, Utah, USA. This sample were viewed on the Sleeping rainbow trial. 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. Legend says that you will be cursed if you remove a piece of fossilized wood from the area.
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Location: Petrified Forest state park, Utah, USA
Photo credit: © Marieke Peche / Alamy / Afripics
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