petrified trees

What he saw, when they drew closer, was two great petrified trees standing upright.

They were now winding their way through completely barren country, and even the petrified trees had vanished.

Fossils and petrified trees bake in the summer sun.

The area also features petrified trees and plant fossils, revealing in stone a picture of life long ago.

The report echoed around the petrified trees, shaking loose their vivid colors.

The city of Mata has large deposits of petrified trees.

With a sharp whistle it passed over his head and crashed into the petrified trees twenty yards from the summer house.

Petrified trees are mineralized fossils of what was once wooden tree trunks.

About petrified trees, wood turning to stone.

Their limbs crackled, and the petrified trees shifted slightly beneath their weight.

Galaeron eyed the petrified trees they were passing, but decided not to suggest using one of them.

Sparks and ash flew, burdening the gaunt petrified trees.

That night, at home in his own bed, Travis slept the deep, deep sleep of ancient petrified trees and dinosaur fossils.

Towers of pink and white coral rose about him, cloven and branching like petrified trees.

Brazil - in the geopark of Paleorrota, there is a vast area with petrified trees.

My pyrhanism vanished upon his statement that in the very region referred to he had seen petrified trees of the length of two hundred feet.

Germany - the museum of natural history in Chemnitz has a collection of petrified trees found in the town in 1737.

Beginning in the 1920s, the farmers of Somervell County, Texas began uncovering 115 million year old petrified trees.

Like all the petrified trees in the forest, it had been infiltrated with silicas from volcanic lava, which had turned it gradually into stone.

The petrified trees found in the Gallatin Range were covered by lava, lahars and ash from volcanic activity approximately 50 million year ago.

The U.S. Forest Service has a 2 mile (3.2 km) long interpretive trail which details the petrified trees.

It was an immense forest of large mineral vegetations, enormous petrified trees, united by garlands of elegant sea- bindweed, all adorned with clouds and reflections.

Some particular petrified trees in the area are said to have been the masts of ships used in Empress Jingū's third century invasion of Korea.

Geologist Jules Marcou, a member of the Whipple expedition, observed that the petrified trees were from the Triassic.

The landscape of Xanth was dotted with the imposing remnants of ancient ogre fights-water-filled calderas, stands of petrified trees, mountains of rubble, and similar artifacts.