PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK

Stratigraphy of the Petrified Forest & Painted Desert area, northern Arizona,
USA.

Badlands topography - interbedded sandstones and shales of the Chinle
Formation (Upper Triassic). A permineralized fossil log is weathering out
from a sandstone interbed at lower left.

Badlands topography - interbedded sandstones and shales of the Chinle
Formation (Upper Triassic). A permineralized fossil log is weathering out
from a sandstone interbed at top.

Petrified Forest - abundant permineralized fossil logs of Araucarioxylon
weathered from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic).

Petrified Forest - abundant permineralized fossil logs of Araucarioxylon
weathered from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic).

Petrified Forest - abundant permineralized fossil logs of Araucarioxylon
weathered from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic).

Petrified Forest - permineralized fossil log of Araucarioxylon
weathered from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic).

Petrified Forest - permineralized fossil log of Araucarioxylon
weathered from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic).

Petrified Forest - permineralized fossil log of Araucarioxylon
weathered from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic).

Petrified Forest - permineralized fossil log of Araucarioxylon
weathered from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic).

Placerias - skeleton of a therapsid (mammal-like reptile).