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  2. Petrified Forest National Park - Wikipedia

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    Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands.

  3. Why Petrified Forest National Park deserves to be a ... - AOL

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    What is special about Petrified Forest National Park? Petrified Forest calls itself a Triassic park. It preserves more than 200 million years of history, including its namesake petrified wood.

  4. Bosques Petrificados de Jaramillo National Park - Wikipedia

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    The Jaramillo Petrified Forest National Park is a protected area of petrified forest located in the Deseado Department, in the northeast of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Formerly part of the site was a natural monument, established in 1954 and known as the Petrified Forest Natural Monument , covering about 13,700 hectares (34,000 acres).

  5. List of areas in the United States National Park System

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    Redesignated as Olympic National Park: Petrified Forest National Monument: December 8, 1906 December 9, 1962 Redesignated as Petrified Forest National Park: Lehman Caves National Monument: June 10, 1933 October 27, 1986 Abolished; incorporated into Great Basin National Park [10] Congaree Swamp National Monument October 18, 1976 November 10, 2003

  6. Puerco Ruin and Petroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    Solar petroglyph at Puerco Pueblo. The site contains over 800 petroglyphs, incised on more than 100 boulders. [8] One of the petroglyphs which has been uncovered at the site appears to show the migration path from the Puerco Pueblo to the Crack-in-the-Rock site, today located within the Wupatki National Monument, dating from approximately 1150.

  7. Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Painted Desert Community Complex is the administrative center of Petrified Forest National Park. The community center includes administrative facilities, utility structures and National Park Service employee housing, planned by architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander as part of the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. Work ...