Petrified Wood - Locations

Locations

• Argentina – The Petrified Forest National Monument in Santa Cruz Province in the Argentine Patagonia has many trees that measure more than 3 m (10 ft) in diameter and 30 m (100 ft) long.
• Australia – Has deposits of Petrified and Opalised Wood. Chinchilla, Queensland is famous for its 'Chinchilla Red'.
• Belgium – Geosite Goudberg near Hoegaarden.
• Brazil – In the geopark of Paleorrota, there is a vast area with petrified trees.
• Canada – In the badlands of southern Alberta; Petrified Wood is the provincial stone of Alberta. Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut has a large petrified forest.
• China – in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, northwest China government has issued a crackdown on collecting of this material, but large slabs and even large meeting tables have been made out of this colorful Petrified Wood.
• Czech Republic, Nová Paka – The most famous locality on Permian-Carboniferous rocks in the Czech Republic.
• Germany – The museum of natural history in Chemnitz has a collection of petrified trees found in the town in 1737.
• Ecuador – Puyango petrified forest. One of the largest collections of Petrified Woods in the world.
• Egypt – petrified forest in Cairo-Suez road, declared a national protectorate by the minstery of environment, also in the area of New Cairo at the Extension of Nasr city, El Qattamiyya, near El Maadi district, and Al Farafra oasis.
• Greece – Petrified Forest of Lesvos, at the western tip of the island of Lesbos, is possibly the largest of the petrified forests, covering an area of over 150 km² and declared a National Monument in 1985. Large, upright trunks complete with root systems can be found, as well as trunks up to 22 m in length.
• India – A geological site famous for its Petrified Woods Thiruvakkarai Village in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The site is protected by the Geological Survey of India. Petrified Woods covers a large area in this site.
• Indonesia – Petrified Woods covers several area in Banten and also in some part of Mount Halimun Salak National Park.
• Libya – Great Sand Sea - Hundreds of square miles of petrified trunks, branches and other debris mixed with Stone Age artifacts.
• Namibia – Petrified forest of Damaraland
• New Zealand:
  • Curio Bay on the Catlins coast contains many petrified wood examples.
  • Fossil Forest, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand
• Saudi Arabia – Petrified forest north of Riyadh.
• Thailand – Bantak Petrified Forest Park in Ban Tak District
• Ukraine – Petrified araucaria trunks near Druzhkivka.
• United Kingdom – many examples of petrified submerged forests can be found at low tide around the coast of England and Wales.
  • Fossil Forest, Dorset, England
• United States – Petrified Wood sites include:
  • Petrified Wood Park in Lemmon, South Dakota.
  • Ginkgo/Wanapum State Park in Washington State.
  • Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.
  • Petrified Forest (California) in California.
  • Mississippi Petrified Forest in Flora, Mississippi.
  • Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument near Florissant, Colorado.
  • Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
  • The south unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park outside Medora, North Dakota.
  • Gilboa Fossil Forest, New York.
  • Escalante Petrified Forest State Park in Utah.
  • Petrified Springs in Kenosha, Wisconsin.