Imagine walking through a forest where the trees are not made of wood but stone—ancient, fossilized remnants of a world that ...

Here's the science behind petrified wood, including what it is, how long it takes to form and whether it's useful in the research world.

Instant Petrified Wood Created in Lab. ... For their experiment, Shin and his colleagues used pine and poplar boards from a local lumber store, cutting the wood into small cubic samples.

In 1906, Arizona decided to stop the removal of petrified wood from their amazing former forest, and soon thereafter, the Drake Company Stone Cutting and Polishing Works closed as well. R.F ...

Let's find out more about the Mississippi Petrified Forest. Petrified wood is fossilized wood. Millions of years ago, trees were swept into a river and covered so deeply that oxygen was cut off to the ...

But Howard and Harvey Kenfield look at petrified wood and know ... The gallery also displays a collection of nearly 70 ornamental spheres the brothers cut and ground and polished from prehistoric ...