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When Wood Rocks

  • July 22, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The Petrified National Forest in the Arizona desert is what’s left of a prehistoric, semi-tropical forest. After being buried under layers of sand for about 200 million years, the trees turned into quartz crystals that still look like wood.

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