- In geology,
petrifaction or
petrification (from
Ancient Gr**** πέτρα (pétra) 'rock, stone') is the
process by
which organic material becomes a
fossil through...
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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...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Petrifaction, or
petrification,
defined as
turning people into
solid stone, is a
common theme in
folklore and mythology, as well as in some
works of modern...
- 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...
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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...
-
without becoming petrified, and gave him a kibisis, a
knapsack to
safely contain the Gorgon's head
which the
goddess warned could still petrify even in death...
-
wooden structures had
turned to stone, thus the
designation "
petrification" or
sometimes "
petrified carpentry" for this process. This
careful preservation of...
