The hardest, the crystalline quartz formed in the air spaces that were left behind when the wood decayed and disappeared typically in sedimentary rock that normally erodes away.
Recently visited this national park, it was so worth it. Other than the petrified wood, it was like an otherworldly landscape out there. Felt like being on a different planet. Plus there is some amazing petroglyphs to see and an ancient Pueblo structure. Definitely worth the visit.
@LanceBeckman Yes, probably does, as back in the 1930s, it was a trend and plenty of petrified wood was sold. Matter of fact, in Glen Rose, Tx, whole homes are made with it. That is ALL.
When I was a kid I went to Teddy Roosevelt National Park and liked the petrified wood so I loaded up my pockets full of it. Little did I know at the time I was committing a federal crime 😅
@@LanceBeckmanin the 70’s you could grab all you wanted but taking more then one piece was discouraged & you might get decked filling a truck up, a far more civilized time
I also have a floor to ceiling fireplace of petrified wood, previous owner too a truck load of it bag from out west. There is a pile of it in mg yard lol
@@grantmeyer6097 Yeah. "Oh, look shiney Rocks! Besides, there's X^100 of them, no one is gonna miss one!" There's also a lot on Private property, that people sell... Leave the National Parks as they are...
@@TheMonkey747 I know just kidding ya! I love prettified trees. Have alot to say but a different conversation. Have some petrified trees in a bag in the backyard.
I've got an 8.2 lb chunk my family obtained when moving from Albuquerque to Seattle back in 1958. I wasn't born until 1959 so "The Rock" was part of the family before I was.
I bought 44 acres 20 miles west of the park boundary lines back in 2018 for only 10,000. Now, the park boundary lines have been expanded to only a couple of miles from my land. It's sooo beautiful here. There is pet wood, fossils, arrowheads, and gypsum everywhere. A dream come true.
DO NOT TAKE ANY PETRIFIED WOOD IT IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE AND THEY DO NOT PLAY AROUND IF THEY CATCH YOU WITH SOME. PEOPLE REGULARLY MAIL PIECES BACK TO THE PARK AFTER EXPERIENCING ALOT OF BAD LUCK. HARD TO BELIEVE NO MENTION OF THE STRICT FEDERAL PARK LAWS.
This has to be said, don't take any away please. I visited there years ago and a person working there said" too many people have already done it" (more or less). When you get there you want to take one with you. Part of me wanted to.
True story! I went there as a kid and it was awesome for a few min… then I was bored and disinterested:/ kinda like the Grand Canyon… yep there a huge hole in the earth… let’s go!
You realize it’s not hot in the desert during fall, winter and early spring right? I respect if you just don’t care for the desert, but in my opinion this national park was so worth it. Other than the petrified wood, there was so many cool formations to see there and so much beauty. Not many places on earth have that type of landscape.
I went there when I was 12, and as a dino fanatic growing up, I absolutely lost my mind, so awed to stand in a place where I could essentially... see the trees. The very trees, even if remains in stone, of towering forests where dinosaurs once roamed. I was so overwhelmed, so overjoyed to experience standing in that strange land, barren desert that was once lush and green, I cried. I stood in the visitor center and cried my eyes out. It was such a spiritual experience for me, time traveling, seeing through the millennia in such a real and physically tangible way. I was absolutely reverent to be able to walk among the prehistoric trees and know in a whole new way that this was, indeed, a place where the largest creatures on earth had once lived.
That’s 30 minutes from me. It’s really neat. Don’t go in the middle of summer with young kids, though. You’ll die of either heat or complaints about the heat. Luckily, at my old house, my backyard was covered with pieces of petrified wood. So I now have a whole box full of them. I also was given two logs. I love fossils and petrified wood. I also love Arizona. My favorite state.
Oh. I just had a flash back to this exact place! My mom took us all around the west to all the big parks. I am so grateful we could go there and I remember the landscape was incredible! Painted desert too!
BE CAREFUL...the captions said these were "pet IED" logs. 1) Who makes an IED (improvised explosive device) look like a log? 2) Why would you keep one as a pet?
As a kid growing up in Arizona, I had received a gift of mounted mineral samples, which began my journey as a geologist, if only in an amateur way. But I dearly loved rocks!
So much detail but where are the branches, roots and bark? And they're buried in sedimentary layers that were laid down in formations that are found across the globe. Catastrophic flood? Interesting.😊❤
Yes. We have our own petrified forest park right here in Sonoma County California. 😊 No need to drive clear out into the desert. Nice cool shady location.
Is this the park with the "curse"? There is some park with petrified trees that is supposedly cursed. Everyone who took a piece of tree with them had a bunch of horrible stuff happen to em. The park got so many letters from people returning their rocks saying how everything went wrong in their life ever since they took it. They have so many of those letters they put em on display.
It might be! I went there in the late 90s and they did in fact have a huge wall of letters and baggies people sent them, confessing to having stolen pieces, feeling terrible guilt, and sent them back. It's pretty bad juju to take the wood, since these trees can never be replenished. For every piece taken, this forest shrinks forever...
More than millions of pounds I imagine the shores along the panhandle of Florida hold billions of pounds of it. The white sands are quartz from Mississippi River. So much quartz that it shows radioactive on a Geiger counter.
I went there as a kid in 1998 and to do this day, those are some of my most vivid memories of childhood. That was and still is one of the most mind blowing things to see! I think that may have been the first time I ever got a feeling of just how long the Earth has been existing before I got here.
Any thoughts on leaf cutter ants being mistaken as pests? It seems they live in a dense rainforest where they must be keeping the mycorrhizal life full of fungi. They also secrete phenylacetic acid, which multiplies the "shoots" of Vanilla planifolia and since vanilla bean orchid vines should be able to nourish the entire vine, I'll send you a video to help think about what you we would have if we had migratory fish again, and iodine might prevent root rot because it's anti-"septic". It can't be that many dams running through our hottest areas, we'd just need to change certain small jobs to wind/solar also, first
I was so disappointed the first time I went to the petrified forest. I was 19 and I thought there would be an actual stone forest with the trees standing upright, but in rock.
You needed more imagination. lol I went when I was 12, and that's how I saw it in my head, looking at how many pieces there were all over the damn place. I reconstructed the landscape in my mind, and I stood there sobbing at how beautiful it was. lol
It's basically a fixed blade on a stand. There's a small gap between the stand and the blade, so rubbing the vegetable over the blade creates equal size slices. They can be a pain to wash though.
@@tamararoberson8060 huh, cool, im 30 years old from usa (the Appalachian mountains) and as a musician myself that can plan the mandolin as well as many other stringed instruments I've never heard of the slicer. Atleast not in memory have I ever heard that phrase used. Thanks for the info!
We bought a house in Seattle where it’s front yard was dug fairly deep below the upper hill. It is absolutely FILLED with petrified wood. It lines our entire driveway, garden, pond and everywhere else. It makes great gifts!
Great vid. Nature's most beautiful creations were born of similarly destructive. Oxidation creates most of the wood color on outside. Not impurities per se; just rock/mineral composition.
Stopped there on our way back from Sedona but it was closed. But the gift shop was open so I was able to buy a small piece of petrified wood. It’s very cool!
Me and my grandpa used to come here at night to watch the stars and then without fail he'd tell me, "Boy... You're something special. Now grab the winch and tie it round them logs to gittem in the back. Don't turn the headlights on" Miss you grandpa
Imagine some poor guy in the 1700's who didn't realize they're petrified, thought he'd found a lifetime supply of firewood free for the taking, and swung his ax into one with EVERYTHING he had😂😂😂
Correction - Quartz is very hard and strong, it is the impurities that are weak
7 Mohs scale, sooooo
The hardest, the crystalline quartz formed in the air spaces that were left behind when the wood decayed and disappeared typically in sedimentary rock that normally erodes away.
Recently visited this national park, it was so worth it. Other than the petrified wood, it was like an otherworldly landscape out there. Felt like being on a different planet. Plus there is some amazing petroglyphs to see and an ancient Pueblo structure. Definitely worth the visit.
WOW!!!
Wait a minute, that's not the south pole
He left Antarctica
@@UniverHole_ Really? Here I though climate change was that bad
lmao what i didnt even realize it was him till i saw this😂
That's East pole
My house has a floor to ceiling fireplace made of petrified wood. The stone was sold from private property. It’s gorgeous.
Sure thing Bubba, and I poop pure gold
@LanceBeckman Yes, probably does, as back in the 1930s, it was a trend and plenty of petrified wood was sold. Matter of fact, in Glen Rose, Tx, whole homes are made with it. That is ALL.
When I was a kid I went to Teddy Roosevelt National Park and liked the petrified wood so I loaded up my pockets full of it. Little did I know at the time I was committing a federal crime 😅
@@LanceBeckmanin the 70’s you could grab all you wanted but taking more then one piece was discouraged & you might get decked filling a truck up, a far more civilized time
I also have a floor to ceiling fireplace of petrified wood, previous owner too a truck load of it bag from out west. There is a pile of it in mg yard lol
Really hard on a chain saw and hard as hell to light
😅😅😅
If you split it into kindling, it might burn better.🤔
Maybe not. 😊
Come on dude it’s Rock.
@@starrr_dust I was being sarcastic 😆
Remember, Please do not remove Petrified Wood from National Parks.
'Touch some rocks', Not 'Take some Rocks'.
Thank you I thought I was going to be the only one to make the comment
@@grantmeyer6097 Yeah.
"Oh, look shiney Rocks! Besides, there's X^100 of them, no one is gonna miss one!"
There's also a lot on Private property, that people sell... Leave the National Parks as they are...
Yeah cuz they only brought in so much! Lmfao bro 🤣😮😂
@@brandongoodbear1351 They should leave with the same Rocks they arrived with, in the same locations.
@@TheMonkey747 I know just kidding ya! I love prettified trees. Have alot to say but a different conversation. Have some petrified trees in a bag in the backyard.
So beautiful. Our planet is amazing
Constantly trying to kill us.
The sight of a dead fossilized forest left me PETRIFIED.
Left me Rock hard
I've got an 8.2 lb chunk my family obtained when moving from Albuquerque to Seattle back in 1958. I wasn't born until 1959 so "The Rock" was part of the family before I was.
Pass it down the generations lol. This was your great great great grandfathers rock 😂
Could you smell what the rock was cooking? 😂
Return it
I bought 44 acres 20 miles west of the park boundary lines back in 2018 for only 10,000. Now, the park boundary lines have been expanded to only a couple of miles from my land. It's sooo beautiful here. There is pet wood, fossils, arrowheads, and gypsum everywhere. A dream come true.
Lucky you!
Careful, we will all show up and build an off grid earth ship... and drop out.. Man!!
“Pet wood”, so cute. 😊
Dude, I'm so glad to hear they expanded!!!
There’s a petrified forest in Florida called Venice Island.
Really? A dear old friend makes her home in Venice..
She used to walk over to the island quite a bit.
I'll have to ask her about it.
Yes but that would involve hard wood and we know venice lacks that. 😮
Not just quartz. A lot of different minerals. And thanks to My. St. Helen's we have proof it doesn't take that long for wood to become petrified.
DO NOT TAKE ANY PETRIFIED WOOD IT IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE AND THEY DO NOT PLAY AROUND IF THEY CATCH YOU WITH SOME. PEOPLE REGULARLY MAIL PIECES BACK TO THE PARK AFTER EXPERIENCING ALOT OF BAD LUCK. HARD TO BELIEVE NO MENTION OF THE STRICT FEDERAL PARK LAWS.
This has to be said, don't take any away please. I visited there years ago and a person working there said" too many people have already done it" (more or less). When you get there you want to take one with you. Part of me wanted to.
It's fun for about 5 minutes, then you remember you're in the desert and miserably overheated
True story! I went there as a kid and it was awesome for a few min… then I was bored and disinterested:/ kinda like the Grand Canyon… yep there a huge hole in the earth… let’s go!
You realize it’s not hot in the desert during fall, winter and early spring right? I respect if you just don’t care for the desert, but in my opinion this national park was so worth it. Other than the petrified wood, there was so many cool formations to see there and so much beauty. Not many places on earth have that type of landscape.
I'm not a desert fan either.
Go in the winter, doofus. lmao
- An Arizonan
No. I'd still be awestruck while suffering from heat stroke. 😊
Think about this...a regular day in the forest...and faster than instantly it was frozen in time buried in ash...just like "Otzi". CRAZY.
I went there when I was 12, and as a dino fanatic growing up, I absolutely lost my mind, so awed to stand in a place where I could essentially... see the trees. The very trees, even if remains in stone, of towering forests where dinosaurs once roamed. I was so overwhelmed, so overjoyed to experience standing in that strange land, barren desert that was once lush and green, I cried. I stood in the visitor center and cried my eyes out. It was such a spiritual experience for me, time traveling, seeing through the millennia in such a real and physically tangible way.
I was absolutely reverent to be able to walk among the prehistoric trees and know in a whole new way that this was, indeed, a place where the largest creatures on earth had once lived.
That’s 30 minutes from me. It’s really neat. Don’t go in the middle of summer with young kids, though. You’ll die of either heat or complaints about the heat.
Luckily, at my old house, my backyard was covered with pieces of petrified wood. So I now have a whole box full of them. I also was given two logs. I love fossils and petrified wood. I also love Arizona. My favorite state.
Beautiful
This is in my backyard. I have petrified wood everywhere lol.
Oh. I just had a flash back to this exact place! My mom took us all around the west to all the big parks. I am so grateful we could go there and I remember the landscape was incredible! Painted desert too!
Good to see you again dude. Thank you for being you
BE CAREFUL...the captions said these were "pet IED" logs.
1) Who makes an IED (improvised explosive device) look like a log?
2) Why would you keep one as a pet?
Tree: Ive fallen and I can't get up.
As a kid growing up in Arizona, I had received a gift of mounted mineral samples, which began my journey as a geologist, if only in an amateur way.
But I dearly loved rocks!
Don't miss out on Meteor crater when planning your trip, west past Winslow (It's a girl, my lord,.. that one) and south at Exit 233.
I did actually! Unfortunately my crater video is too long for Shorts
@@JoeSpinstheGlobe Amazing how close it came to destroying the visitor's center!
@@jcadult101that’s an oldie moldie… and I still laugh out loud every time I hear or see it! 😂
@@melinphx1 Thanks, I resemble that remark.
You'll never convince me, that there wasn't a quartz forest. With quartz squirrels, birds and deer.
So much detail but where are the branches, roots and bark? And they're buried in sedimentary layers that were laid down in formations that are found across the globe. Catastrophic flood? Interesting.😊❤
Fascinating. ❤
Was there in 1986. Absolutely a must see in America.
Very cool!
My husband and I visited there on our honeymoon. Very cool place!
Protect them!!! I'm not even about that life, but thought about "getting one" for my lounge. 😮😮😮
Wow, iv never heard of this place before. Sooo wicked!!! ❤❤❤
I was there years ago and it was so cool to see all those petrified trees.
Yes. We have our own petrified forest park right here in Sonoma County California. 😊 No need to drive clear out into the desert. Nice cool shady location.
❤
Touch some rocks… don’t take anything!
Can't believe I had to scroll so long to find this.
I will take what I want thank you very much
It's literally posted everywhere at the park. There is plenty on private lands surrounding the park..... I would know as I live 10 miles from it.
Wow 😯
I guess that cellulose acted like a "grid" keeping the logs intact. Amazing
Is this the park with the "curse"? There is some park with petrified trees that is supposedly cursed. Everyone who took a piece of tree with them had a bunch of horrible stuff happen to em.
The park got so many letters from people returning their rocks saying how everything went wrong in their life ever since they took it. They have so many of those letters they put em on display.
It might be! I went there in the late 90s and they did in fact have a huge wall of letters and baggies people sent them, confessing to having stolen pieces, feeling terrible guilt, and sent them back. It's pretty bad juju to take the wood, since these trees can never be replenished. For every piece taken, this forest shrinks forever...
More than millions of pounds I imagine the shores along the panhandle of Florida hold billions of pounds of it. The white sands are quartz from Mississippi River. So much quartz that it shows radioactive on a Geiger counter.
I know a guy who buys petrified trees and cuts and polishes them. Absolutely stunning. He’s got a 30 foot tree still intact in his shop
This is a great place. The logs are fantastic.
The time scales that humans live at are miniscule. We are but fruit flies in the history of time.
Remember never take a piece of that home with you or you're going to have bad luck.☠️
Paid a visit there in 2005 it was amazing
It's a cool spot. I was there a lifetime ago. I look very different. I bet the forest hasn't changed much.
Imagine, that dinosaurs looked at those very trees at one point
Yet to this day, scientists say there is no such thing as petrified wood
Your videos are very intriguing!
As a little kid i was disappointed they are all laying down. I was expecting a forest.
So cool, love the video and the science, wish you went more in-depth about it but awesome.❤
The stuff they sell in the gift shop are made in Saint Johns, AZ and you can buy everything from their shop for much less than the gift shop.
I went there as a kid in 1998 and to do this day, those are some of my most vivid memories of childhood. That was and still is one of the most mind blowing things to see! I think that may have been the first time I ever got a feeling of just how long the Earth has been existing before I got here.
So true! Everything there just *feels* ancient
Been there and done that.
Even purchased some from a guy who owned the property next to the Park.
Should have gone later on the day. Midday is not showing this place at it's best. Sunset is wonderful.
Awesome 👍😎.....God gave us beautiful things.
You'd be surprised at how fast things actually happen.
very interesting!!👍
Been there in 2003, they also sell them in the gift shop and some of them are expensive
…just think how much was carted-off as a souvenir back in the day
Weird to think of Arizona having a forest of any type.
They look Ionic column drums
Went there as a child it is really beautiful!
due to the very high silica content the petrified wood pieces can be made into tools by knapping them just like chert or flint tools
One of my hobbies is knapping stone arrowheads/tools and that's all I was thinking about lol. I'd love to get my hands on a slab
tonnes of petrified giant creatures around the world too. many we call mountains
Epic sunnies my guy. Aviator 62's. Love 'em
Are all Quartz stones from wood? This is so curious to me. I can’t wait to go to national forest
Oh I want to go there sooo bad!!
Leaves anyone who works with wood on a daily basis with a series of puzzling questions.
But what sort of trees were they?
Wait, why do they look like they were cut with a chainsaw 😂
Probably because they fell over and broke that way.
I would love to have a piece of this.🤭
"Touch rocks"
The "touch grass" for arid climates
and how much was destroyed before we learned how special a place that was and stopped harvesting shiny rocks.
That formation extends far beyond the park. It also produces crocodile teeth.
Any thoughts on leaf cutter ants being mistaken as pests? It seems they live in a dense rainforest where they must be keeping the mycorrhizal life full of fungi. They also secrete phenylacetic acid, which multiplies the "shoots" of Vanilla planifolia and since vanilla bean orchid vines should be able to nourish the entire vine, I'll send you a video to help think about what you we would have if we had migratory fish again, and iodine might prevent root rot because it's anti-"septic". It can't be that many dams running through our hottest areas, we'd just need to change certain small jobs to wind/solar also, first
Very beautiful, stopped there after the Grand Canyon
That looks like somewhere I need to go
I was so disappointed the first time I went to the petrified forest. I was 19 and I thought there would be an actual stone forest with the trees standing upright, but in rock.
You needed more imagination. lol
I went when I was 12, and that's how I saw it in my head, looking at how many pieces there were all over the damn place.
I reconstructed the landscape in my mind, and I stood there sobbing at how beautiful it was. lol
Washington mentioned 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
My grandma took me there as a kid, but regretfully I had no idea of how cool it was then:(
I've seen so much of that petrified wood that was taken at yard sales and thrift stores, and curiosity shops
Wait, ive never heard of a "mandolin slicer".... like the instrument? Mandolin?
It's basically a fixed blade on a stand. There's a small gap between the stand and the blade, so rubbing the vegetable over the blade creates equal size slices. They can be a pain to wash though.
And yes, the mandolin (or "mandoline" in the US) slicer is named after the instrument.
@@tamararoberson8060 huh, cool, im 30 years old from usa (the Appalachian mountains) and as a musician myself that can plan the mandolin as well as many other stringed instruments I've never heard of the slicer. Atleast not in memory have I ever heard that phrase used. Thanks for the info!
I have a small piece, about the size of a tennis ball. No idea where it came from, but I hang on to it.
That's cool!!!
We bought a house in Seattle where it’s front yard was dug fairly deep below the upper hill. It is absolutely FILLED with petrified wood. It lines our entire driveway, garden, pond and everywhere else. It makes great gifts!
Wonder if those are some of the branches from the giant trees...like the giant tree cut in Wyoming..."Devils Tower"
The Devil’s Tower of igneous columnar basalt?
That is beautiful. Are you allowed to take a piece?
would love to see one mounted vertically as it would have been in life.
Yes. Quartzite Az . You can literally drive on mountains made of quartz
That was pretty cool, thanks for sharing.
3000 millions years ago sounds a lot scientific. You can't ever prove that wrong
Man... petrified wood is an environmental phenomenon... it can happen in just 200 years too.
Nope, it can’t, this process takes tens of millions of years.
Calcification can happen that fast, not true mineral replacement petrifaction.
It's a great park. So impressive.
Right around that area is an awesome impact crater also.
Also the painted desert! My family went on a huge road trip and visited practically every park on that part of the state. lol
You can tell Steve has been punching trees 🌲 💀
At first I was afraid, I was petrified …
Great vid. Nature's most beautiful creations were born of similarly destructive. Oxidation creates most of the wood color on outside. Not impurities per se; just rock/mineral composition.
Stopped there on our way back from Sedona but it was closed. But the gift shop was open so I was able to buy a small piece of petrified wood. It’s very cool!
Me and my grandpa used to come here at night to watch the stars and then without fail he'd tell me, "Boy... You're something special. Now grab the winch and tie it round them logs to gittem in the back. Don't turn the headlights on"
Miss you grandpa
Imagine some poor guy in the 1700's who didn't realize they're petrified, thought he'd found a lifetime supply of firewood free for the taking, and swung his ax into one with EVERYTHING he had😂😂😂