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Petrified Forest

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Pet·ri·fied Forest  (ptr-fd)
A section of the Painted Desert in eastern Arizona reserved as a national park for its stonelike trees dating from the Triassic Period.
Petrified Forest
n
(Placename) a national park in E Arizona, containing petrified coniferous trees about 170 000 000 years old
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In a sharp departure from Bush administration policies, the Obama team has halted new uranium mining claims near the Grand Canyon, proposed new preserves for wild mustangs and funded the expansion of the Petrified Forest National Park.
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