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How does wood turn to stone? Petrified wood forms after a tree trunk becomes covered by wet mud composed of fine sediments or volcanic ash. Water keeps the wood from decaying quickly, and the mud provides silica that gradually replaces the wood’s cells with quartz, opal, or chalcedony (all are forms of silica). Sometimes this happens so slowly that the tree’s rings and cells are preserved. Some petrified wood can be very colorful because iron and manganese impurities can tint the silica red, yel

🏜️ The Painted Desert stretches across 120 miles of northern Arizona. Its sedimentary rocks show bright orange, gold, white, and even purple layers. Amidst this desert lies Petrified Forest National Park, named after its famed stone tree trunks. Here, sands and muds covered both strange and common creatures. Fossils include armored reptiles like aetosaurs, agile dinosaurs like Revueltosaurus, and clams. What happened on the earth to trap these animals and plants in single layers of sediment tha