Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood Cones Ferns and Cycads

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NOTE: This book is SOLD OUT. 176 pages with 430 full color photographs of some of the most beautiful fossil specimens in existence. Chapters include Paleobotany Geology Mineralogy and Collecting Petrified Materials. Hundreds of specimens from private collections are for the first time available for public view. Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood Cones Ferns and Cycads presents photographs of fossil specimens from Argentina Australia Brazil Madagascar Turkey and Zimbabwe and from Arizona Colorado Idaho Louisiana Nevada Oregon Texas Utah Washington and Wyoming in the United States. Photographs include a variety of types and genera of wood including Araucaria Woodworthia Schilderia Pentoxylon Hermanophyton oak maple tamarack and Ginkgo; cones of Araucaria Pararaucaria Cycadeoidea and Sequoia; and the ferns Tietea singularis Tempskya and Osmundacaulis.