Nature Wonders PETRIFIED FOREST U.S.A.
NWG-DVD-109 – An extensive, scant desert landscape surrounds the Petrified Forest National Park east of Arizona. In the middle of the desert-like Badlands is one of the U.S.A.’s most
remarkable geological treasures, the Petrified Forest. Two million years ago this region was a swampland inhabited by various species of dinosaur. The Forest covers an area of approximately three hundred and seventy-eight square kilometres and the outstanding petrifactions can be found throughout.
Numerous fossilised sections of trees lie scattered across the desert and date back to prehistoric times when the surrounding highlands were covered with dense forest.
Powerful torrential rivers carried the broken, dead tree trunks into a vast swampland where
they sank deep into the morass and became hermetically sealed while additional layers of sediment built up on the trunks. Thus normal decomposition was halted and the wood retained various minerals.
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The Stanford Cactus Garden (30,000 square feet), also known as the Arizona Cactus Garden, is a botanical garden specializing in cactus and succulents. It is located on the campus of Stanford University (within the Stanford University Arboretum, and near the Stanford Family Mausoleum and the Angel of Grief), Palo Alto, California, USA, and open to the public daily without charge
Been at the computer too long? Need a little break? Take this 1-minute vacation. Look, listen and imagine yourself in the amazing desert landscape of Arizona and Utah. Then you can get back to work.
The Nature of Glass, Chihuly’s unmistakeable glass-works parallels that of the Sonoran desert landscape in this exhibition which is presented at the Desert Botanical Garden.( Phoenix, Az) This 5 minute video highlights some of his works in the manner that I was able to portray it with my point and shoot. I’ve also included other notable shots that I thought helped set the feeling of the beauty in nature that abounds here at the DBG. You saw it in FB, Now see it on YT ! I believe you’ll enjoy this as well.