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Agate House Pueblo
Agate House is a partially reconstructed Puebloan building in Petrified Forest National Park, built almost entirely of petrified wood.
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Apatite
Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxylapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ions, respectively, in the crystal.
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Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
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Carbon
Carbon (from carbo "coal") is a chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6.
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Concretion
A concretion is a hard, compact mass of matter formed by the precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between particles, and is found in sedimentary rock or soil.
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Dinosaur Valley State Park
Dinosaur Valley State Park is a state park near Glen Rose, Texas, United States.
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Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Girolamo Segato
Girolamo Segato (13 June 1792 – 3 February 1836) was an Italian naturalist, cartographer, Egyptologist, and anatomist.
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Glen Rose Formation
The Glen Rose Formation is a shallow marine to shoreline geological formation from the lower Cretaceous period exposed over a large area from South Central to North Central Texas.
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Glen Rose, Texas
Glen Rose is a city in and the county seat of Somervell County, Texas, United States.
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Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich is an affluent town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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Lamar, Colorado
Lamar is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Prowers County, Colorado, United States.
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Mineral
A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and not produced by life processes.
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Organic matter
Organic matter, organic material, or natural organic matter (NOM) refers to the large pool of carbon-based compounds found within natural and engineered, terrestrial and aquatic environments.
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is one of the United States Department of Energy national laboratories, managed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science.
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Permineralization
Permineralization is a process of fossilization in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms.
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Petrifaction in mythology and fiction
Petrifaction, or petrification as defined as turning people to stone, is also a common theme in folklore and mythology, as well as in some works of modern fiction.
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Petrified Forest National Park
Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.
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Petrified wood
Petrified wood (from the Greek root petro meaning "rock" or "stone"; literally "wood turned into stone") is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation.
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Petrifying well
A petrifying well is a well which gives objects a stone-like appearance.
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Pueblo
Pueblos are modern and old communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States.
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Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide).
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Quartz
Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.
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Rhynie chert
The Rhynie chert is an Early Devonian sedimentary deposit exhibiting extraordinary fossil detail or completeness (a Lagerstätte).
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Siderite
Siderite is a mineral composed of iron(II) carbonate (FeCO3).
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Silicon carbide
Silicon carbide (SiC), also known as carborundum, is a semiconductor containing silicon and carbon.
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Somervell County, Texas
Somervell County is a county on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Taphonomy
Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized.
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Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element with symbol Ti and atomic number 22.
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Titanium carbide
Titanium carbide, TiC, is an extremely hard (Mohs 9–9.5) refractory ceramic material, similar to tungsten carbide.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrifaction