- The
Petrified Forest is a 1936
American crime drama film
directed by
Archie Mayo and
based on
Robert E. Sherwood's 1934
drama of the same name. The motion...
-
Petrified wood (from
Ancient Gr**** πέτρα
meaning 'rock' or 'stone';
literally 'wood
turned into stone'), is the name
given to a
special type of fossilized...
- In geology,
petrifaction or
petrification (from
Ancient Gr**** πέτρα (pétra) 'rock, stone') is the
process by
which organic material becomes a
fossil through...
-
Petrified Forest National Park is a
national park of the
United States in
Navajo and
Apache counties in
northeastern Arizona.
Named for its
large deposits...
- A
petrifying well is a well or
other body of
water which gives objects a stone-like appearance. If an
object is
placed into such a well and left there...
- history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m),
roughly 3,000
pound purported "
petrified man",
uncovered on
October 16, 1869, by
workers digging a well behind...
-
Palmoxylon (
petrified palmwood) is an
extinct genus of palm
named from
petrified wood
found around the world. This
genus is
known in the
fossil record...
-
wooden structures had
turned to stone, thus the
designation "
petrification" or
sometimes "
petrified carpentry" for this process. This
careful preservation of...
- The
Petrified Forest is a 1934 two-act play by
American playwright Robert E. Sherwood. It is a melodrama, with a
large cast and one setting. The story...
- The
Lesvos Petrified Forest is a
petrified wood
forest on the
island of ****s, Greece. The
forest was
formed from the
fossilized remains of
plants and...
