Indeed, as the people of Glen Rose learned, the fossils work nicely as a brick substitute. In the 1920s and 1930s, locals ...

The fossil tree on the Museum's east lawn is thought to have ... The wood is petrified, meaning that it has been turned to stone. For petrified wood to form, organic material is replaced by minerals - ...

Military survey parties passing through the region in the 1850s filled their saddlebags with the petrified wood. As word of these remarkable deposits spread, fossil logs were hauled off by the ...

It preserves more than 200 million years of history, including its namesake petrified wood. It’s the only place chindesaurus fossils have ever been found. Coelophysis fossils have also been discovered ...

Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park ... Visitors were pocketing small pieces of petrified wood to take home as souvenirs, which was adding up to a significant loss. Santucci knew ...

Instead, primates are usually preserved as petrified teeth and bones that can be extracted from the surrounding rock. These kinds of fossils can ... Bone, like wood, is porous and full of canals ...

Since North America has a relatively recent history (no Roman cities for us to dig up) we have to content ourselves with: items of natural history, such as fossils and petrified wood archeological ...

Tree fossils, also known as petrified wood, form in the same way. This is why it's possible to count the growth rings of some fossil trees. Sometimes ground water dissolves the buried bone or shell, ...

50 million year old Green River fish fossils; ammonites; trilobites; petrified wood-including several specimens from Long Island. Participation in Museum Day is open to any tax-exempt or ...

It comes in the form of crystals and agates, fossils and petrified wood. The state is rock hounding paradise, say those who pursue the hobby. You’ve just got to know where to look. A mid-August ...

Since North America has a relatively recent history (no Roman cities for us to dig up) we have to content ourselves with: items of natural history, such as fossils and petrified wood archeological ...