Friends of Petrified Forest National Park
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The Friends of Petrified Forest has initiated a $25,000 campaign to purchase a 3D scanner for the research and educational use of Petrified Forest National Park. A board member of Friends of Petrified Forest has pledged up to $12,500 in matching …
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This is the Artec Space Spider – a handheld scanner that will be used to digitize items at the park in three dimensions (3D). Combined with the park’s 3D printer, scientifically significant fossils and other natural history objects in the Park museum …
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By Gary Grube, Friends of Petrified Forest Board Member English rocker Rod Stewart’s 1971 hit taught us that “every picture tells a story.” Petrified Forest National Park has tens of thousands of pictures on rocks left by indigenous inhabitants of …
Continue Reading about Signatures in Stone: Decoding Some History at Petrified Forest
Announced during last week’s National Fossil Day (More information - https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossilday/index.htm) the discovery of fossil remains of a tiny burrowing reptile – something that looked like a cross between an anteater and a …
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Petrified Forest’s strangely beautiful landscape has attracted people for thousands of years, but it has only been the last 140 years that visitors have made a photographic record of their visits. Park staff member William Gibson Parker has …
Continue Reading about “Must-Have” Petrified Forest Book Soon to be Released
Petrified Forest, AZ – Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO) has served as a natural laboratory for research in Late Triassic paleontology and geology for nearly 100 years. With its vast exposures of the fossil-rich Chinle Formation, PEFO offers …
