Petrified forest. Close-up of a petrified tree trunk at Curio Bay,South Island,New Zealand. Curio Bay is a coastal embayment and a site of a petrified forest some 180 million years old. The now petrified logs,from ancient conifers closely related to modern Kauri and Norfolk Pine,were buried by ancient volcanic mud flows and gradually replaced by silica to produce the fossils now exposed by the sea | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Raymond, Peter J. |
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