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Mississippi’s Petrified
Forest
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more or visit “Tales from
the Table” at
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TALES
FROM THE TABLE!
SPOTLIGHT SPECIMEN
PETRIFIED WOOD
By Csarsene - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25386108
In Flora, Mississippi is our state’s very
own petrified forest. If you visit there,
you can walk along the nature trail and
see giant logs made of stone.
These logs are what remains of a log
jam in a river that existed 36 million
years ago in a time period called the
Eocene Epoch. After these logs were
stuck in the river, they sank to the
bottom and were covered in mud and
silt. Over millions of years, these logs
fossilized and turned to stone.
What is petrified wood?
Take a petrified forest road trip!
These are some of the best places to see
petrified wood in the United States
By Jon Sullivan - http://pdphoto.org/PictureDetail.php?mat=pdef&pg=7983, Public
Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15305
Petrified wood is what scientists call fossil
wood. Petrified wood forms the same way
fossil bones do--the wood is buried by
sediment like mud or sand, and over
thousands or millions of years, the organic
parts of the wood are slowly replaced by
minerals. Petrified wood often looks very
similar to modern wood, but if you were to
pick it up, you’d realize that it’s much
heavier than normal wood and hard like
stone.
By Aneta Kaluzna Qbek - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2027943
Mississippi Petrified Forest
Flora, MS (36 million years
old)
Petrified Forest National Park
Arizona (200 million years
old)
California Petrified Forest
California (3.4 million
years old)
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming (50 million years old)
Gilboa Fossil Forest
New York (380 million years
old)
Escalante Petrified Forest State
Park
Utah (150 million years old)
Forest
Scan the QR code to learn
more or visit “Tales from
the Table” at
https://msstateexhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/tftt
TALES
FROM THE TABLE!
SPOTLIGHT SPECIMEN
PETRIFIED WOOD
By Csarsene - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25386108
In Flora, Mississippi is our state’s very
own petrified forest. If you visit there,
you can walk along the nature trail and
see giant logs made of stone.
These logs are what remains of a log
jam in a river that existed 36 million
years ago in a time period called the
Eocene Epoch. After these logs were
stuck in the river, they sank to the
bottom and were covered in mud and
silt. Over millions of years, these logs
fossilized and turned to stone.
What is petrified wood?
Take a petrified forest road trip!
These are some of the best places to see
petrified wood in the United States
By Jon Sullivan - http://pdphoto.org/PictureDetail.php?mat=pdef&pg=7983, Public
Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15305
Petrified wood is what scientists call fossil
wood. Petrified wood forms the same way
fossil bones do--the wood is buried by
sediment like mud or sand, and over
thousands or millions of years, the organic
parts of the wood are slowly replaced by
minerals. Petrified wood often looks very
similar to modern wood, but if you were to
pick it up, you’d realize that it’s much
heavier than normal wood and hard like
stone.
By Aneta Kaluzna Qbek - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2027943
Mississippi Petrified Forest
Flora, MS (36 million years
old)
Petrified Forest National Park
Arizona (200 million years
old)
California Petrified Forest
California (3.4 million
years old)
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming (50 million years old)
Gilboa Fossil Forest
New York (380 million years
old)
Escalante Petrified Forest State
Park
Utah (150 million years old)