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Petrified Forest National Park
Photos & Multimedia
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Be sure to check out the Museum Management Program for National Park Service. There are great exhibits, collections, and Treasures of the Nation.
Learn more about Petrified Forest National Park by exploring scenic photo galleries and viewing short videos of park rangers describing features found at the park.
Wilderness (interactive slide show)
Wilderness (PDF slide show 2.3MB)
This page is still under development. Check back later for new additions!
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The following videos require QuickTime to view.
Ranger Marge Post discusses:
- the badlands that make up the Painted Desert.
QuickTime movie (8.31MB), 1 minute 34 seconds
- how water shaped the landscape through deposition of sediments during the Triassic and how water shapes the landscape of today through erosion
QuickTime movie 1:14 (7.24MB)
- why the petrified logs look like someone started cutting them up for firewood
QuickTime movie 1:22 (8.05MB)
- how the Bidahochi Formation was created and the resulting unconformity between it and the Chinle Formation
QuickTime movie 1:43 (10.1MB)
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Ranger Hallie Larsen discusses:
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Ranger Janet Fernandes discusses:
- badlands and their formation through the power of erosion
QuickTime movie 1:29 (8.71MB)
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Ranger Rita Garcia discusses:
- erosion and the stories it reveals as fossils come to the surface
QuickTime movie 0:52 (5.14MB)
- windows of time between the petrified forest, the ancestral Puebloan people, and today
QuickTime movie 0:51 (5.04MB)
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Did You Know?
Standing on the edge of a vast badlands landscape, a Spanish explorer is rumored to have named the area "El Desierto Pintado" (The Painted Desert) because the hills looked like they were painted with the colors of the sunset.
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Last Updated: April 24, 2009 at 12:20 EST |