What is now a high, dry and very windy place used to be a floodplain with trees and dinosaurs. When the area was flooded and the trees fell, they were washed downstream and over time covered by silt, mud, and volcanic ash. This was over 225 million years ago and since then the trees have turned into quartz (because of silica in the groundwater) they will forever be preserved as petrified wood.
We had fun- Mexican food and margaritas, late night cookie run, reminiscing about home and catching up on life.
Did you take any more pictures of the petrified forest?
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