Petrified Logs - Overton, NV
N 36° 25.324 W 114° 32.395
11S E 720554 N 4033575
Petrified logs are located in two fenced in areas at the Valley of Fire State Park in Overton, Nevada, USA. The Valley of Fire State Park is located 50 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and covers an area of 34,880 acres.
Waymark Code: WMG6CX
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 01/19/2013
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A sign adjacent to one of the fenced areas reads as follows:
Petrified Log
Millions of years ago, this tree likely grew with others of its kind in a forest several miles from here. Later, flood waters carried the fallen log to this area where it was buried beneath thousands of feet of silt, sand and sea deposits. Here it slowly changed to stone.
The following additional information is from the Valley of Fire website:
"Petrified wood is wood that has laid outside long enough to become a fossil. All the organic things have been removed by sun, wind, water, and time, and have been completely replaced with minerals. Logs and stumps washed into Valley of Fire about 225 million years ago and are visible in two locations. The logs are several colorful tree trunks lying close to the road, safely fenced off for all to enjoy.
Petrified forests are rather common in the West and are often made up of a wide variety of trees. The trees in this area are ancient pines that grew here about during the great Age of Reptiles, about 150 million years ago."
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