petrified wood - China Travel

02/03 2023

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The petrified wood in the Xinjiang Ancient Ecological Park was found in the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, mainly the fossils of ginkgo and pines. These ginkgo and pines live in the1.9

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During the Jurassic period hundreds of millions of years ago, we lived with dinosaurs. Due to geological changes and disasters such as earthquakes, the continental plate sank, and these trees were buried in the strata in an instant. Some chemical elements in the soil (such as: silicon dioxide, iron sulfide, calcium carbonate, etc.) infiltrate into the woody cells of these trees under the action of groundwater and under the environment of low temperature and high pressure for many years, making them continuously petrified, Jade, until it becomes what we see now

petrified wood

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天山奕朵

Fossils are beautiful! Well worth seeing with kids,

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贾超建

A humanistic scenic spot started to be built in Xinjiang in 2005, which contains the longest silicified wood in the world, with a length of more than 60 meters. The most important thing is that the park is the base of bloody BMWs, and it is also the largest collection of sweaty BMWs in the world. A yard, in the park, can have close contact with the horses. There are also many huge trunks of Populus euphratica living fossils from Xinjiang with a thousand years in the park. On the opposite side is the Yema Art Museum, which stores more than 600 oil paintings by domestic and world famous painters. . . . . . Wait, it's worth a look!

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yuyanjia~

The petrified wood is in the ancient ecological garden. Petrified wood is also called petrified wood and jade. It is a semi-jade material formed when wood was deposited underground millions of years ago, and the water in it was replaced by silicon dioxide.

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