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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE FOSSIL FOREST OF ARIZONA 313 miles south of Adamana. This area includes the natural bridge already referred to, and a considerable collection of broken trunks which, while interesting and instructive, cannot compare in point of beauty or size with the second, third and Rainbow forests further to the south and southwest. Both the second and third have suffered less through erosion than the first and the logs are less broken, and it is here that one gains the best impression of the enormous dimensions of these silicified monsters. Trunks occur of all sizes up to five feet or more in diameter and sixty or eighty or even a
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Photo by E. O. Honey, 1911 Spectacular effect of erosion in the first forest.—The lower portion shows clays of many- colors and on the ground at the base are broken logs of petrified wood. An osprey has built its nest on the pinnacle of sandstone hundred feet in length. Of all the deposits, that known as the Rainbow Forest is the most fascinating on account of the richness of the colors, al- though from a geological standpoint it is a wreck. Few if any of the trees occupy their original position of entombment, but all are tumbled about in a confused, chaotic manner, in the numerous gulches and ravines which result from the spasmodic periods of erosion characteristic of arid regions. It is to be regretted that the average tourist, who devotes season after season to European travel, does not feel that he can devote more than a portion of a single day to the investigation of these wonderful deposits of

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1913
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  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:335
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