Episode 173: Petrified Forest

Palaeocast by Dave Marshall

Mar 17, 202649:11Science & Medicine

Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona, USA is a hub for Triassic palaeontology and has exposures representing 20 million years of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation. Visitors marvel at the colourful foss...

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