Petrified Wood - Locations

Locations

  • Argentina – The Petrified Forest National Monument in Santa Cruz Province in the Argentine Patagonia has many trees that measure more than 3 m (10 ft) in diameter and 30 m (100 ft) long.
  • Australia – Has deposits of Petrified and Opalised Wood. Chinchilla, Queensland is famous for its 'Chinchilla Red'.
  • Belgium – Geosite Goudberg near Hoegaarden.
  • Brazil – In the geopark of Paleorrota, there is a vast area with petrified trees.
  • Canada – In the badlands of southern Alberta; Petrified Wood is the provincial stone of Alberta. Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut has a large petrified forest.
  • China – in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, northwest China government has issued a crackdown on collecting of this material, but large slabs and even large meeting tables have been made out of this colorful Petrified Wood.
  • Czech Republic, Nová Paka – The most famous locality on Permian-Carboniferous rocks in the Czech Republic.
  • Germany – The museum of natural history in Chemnitz has a collection of petrified trees found in the town in 1737.
  • Ecuador – Puyango petrified forest. One of the largest collections of Petrified Woods in the world.
  • Egypt – petrified forest in Cairo-Suez road, declared a national protectorate by the minstery of environment, also in the area of New Cairo at the Extension of Nasr city, El Qattamiyya, near El Maadi district, and Al Farafra oasis.
  • Greece – Petrified Forest of Lesvos, at the western tip of the island of Lesbos, is possibly the largest of the petrified forests, covering an area of over 150 km² and declared a National Monument in 1985. Large, upright trunks complete with root systems can be found, as well as trunks up to 22 m in length.
  • India – A geological site famous for its Petrified Woods Thiruvakkarai Village in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The site is protected by the Geological Survey of India. Petrified Woods covers a large area in this site.
  • Indonesia – Petrified Woods covers several area in Banten and also in some part of Mount Halimun Salak National Park.
  • Libya – Great Sand Sea - Hundreds of square miles of petrified trunks, branches and other debris mixed with Stone Age artifacts.
  • Namibia – Petrified forest of Damaraland
  • New Zealand:
    • Curio Bay on the Catlins coast contains many petrified wood examples.
    • Fossil Forest, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Saudi Arabia – Petrified forest north of Riyadh.
  • Thailand – Bantak Petrified Forest Park in Ban Tak District
  • Ukraine – Petrified araucaria trunks near Druzhkivka.
  • United Kingdom – many examples of petrified submerged forests can be found at low tide around the coast of England and Wales.
    • Fossil Forest, Dorset, England
  • United States – Petrified Wood sites include:
    • Petrified Wood Park in Lemmon, South Dakota.
    • Ginkgo/Wanapum State Park in Washington State.
    • Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
    • Petrified Forest (California) in California.
    • Mississippi Petrified Forest in Flora, Mississippi.
    • Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument near Florissant, Colorado.
    • Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
    • The south unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park outside Medora, North Dakota.
    • Gilboa Fossil Forest, New York.
    • Escalante Petrified Forest State Park in Utah.
    • Petrified Springs in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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