Could you believe it: the Devil's Tower, Mount Roraima in Venesuela, and all the great rocky plateaus on our planet are petrified tree trunks from millions years ago...

ffellow! Yeah~ awesome footage, all the best, 📢

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Just added this vid to my bucket list of sites to visit. Totally agree with not stealing any artifacts from future generations of visitors. Instead, shoot selfies next to or near interesting finds. Have numerous pics of my hand next to fossils found in various desert parks, for scale.

@CactusAtlas

Жыл бұрын

that's awesome! thanks for sharing!

Nice ambience ang good location being shown and giving my full support.

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😄

Amazing upload my friend. Like this video 😲👏👍🥰

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😄

It’s still looking real ,but rock

@CactusAtlas

9 ай бұрын

They're kind of surreal at times when you're up close to them. You reach out expecting to feel bark as it really looks like normal bark on some pieces and it just feels like rock. Nature is amazing!

Great share👍👍❤️👍 ciao from italia 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😄

Respect the environment! Absolutely.

My wife and I stopped by on our way to the Grand Canyon last fall - loved it! The wind was blowing when we were there too. ha ha

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Oh it always is. Never spentt a quiet day there yet. 😂

best tour of it on u tube. thank you soooo much!

@CactusAtlas

10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you! It's our pleasure. 😊

Back in 1976 my dad decided to create a birthday card to America. He thought how great would it be to get every mayor and governor of every state to sign a giant book wishing America its two hundred year old birthday. And so we started in Brooklyn NY. For 11 month we traveled and traveled to each and every state while doing this I had the favorite places we visited. The first was the golden gate bridge even though I was from NY something about the bridge just fascinated me. Then it was the four corners at 11 years old to me it was one of the coolest places who else from Brooklyn could say the were in four states at one place. And then it was the petrified forest I just couldn't get over those rocks were once trees. My dad did his best to explain it to us but we were just to busy taking it all in to remember half of what he said about but I was truly fascinated by how we were touching something that was alive millions of years ago. I'm 59 now but I would love to go back and retrace some of that wonderful trip again. The birthday card to America is at the Smithsonian to be displayed during the tri centennial birthday of America. Hopefully my daughter and her children.we get to see it some day on display. Thanks for sharing your video with us the memories have come.flooding back making me want to visit more than ever..

@CactusAtlas

Жыл бұрын

😮 That is one amazing story! Do you happen to know or remember how many signatures your dad was able to get? What an incredible trip for someone to take. I imagine you saw some incredible things. And yes, it's really hard to wrap one's head around the idea that trees millions of years ago now sit as chunks of rock - no matter how old we may be. 😊 Thanks for sharing your story!

@extremeforce07

Жыл бұрын

@@CactusAtlas your absolutely right at any age it's fascinating to see and touch something that old. As far as the signature count it wouldn't be just the mayors and governors of each state we actually got president jimmy Carter to sign and many others including guys like Neil Armstrong buzz aldren just to name a few. We were all given copies of the books maybe someday I'll count them and let ya know. Till then please keep sharing your adventures it means a lot to us all.

@CactusAtlas

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We will keep going for sure. And those signatures.... priceless!

I love the desert.

Thank you…..enjoyable video!

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it. 😊

@fluffyotter1601

2 жыл бұрын

@@CactusAtlas always enjoy them….:)

That park really is one amazing 🤩 place 😎😀

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

It is! Thanks for watching.

I just think you need to have your coffee and make #2 BEFORE you leave for your hike for the day and then you may not be soooo obsessed with looooong logs 🤣🤣

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Or maybe coffee WAS already involved. 😂🤣

Unbelievable what time the elements and nature can do An amazing place. Great video 🤩

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more! And just to make time feel even bigger, I've seen some amazing black and white historical photos side by side with present day photos and the same petrified logs are right there. In the same positions! 😂

Those are some really interesting areas of the National park! We went a few years ago and accessed it by the Painted Desert. It is so large we ran out of time before we made it to the other side!

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

One could easily spend an entire day there and still not see everything. It's a huge park. Not even sure we've seen all there is yet. 😅

Great video. I love Petrified Forest National Park but seem to always get there when the weather is bad. Its so crazy to think about what animals once climbed and lived among the trees.

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm not sure I'd want to be around some of those animals. Also I'm not sure there's ever a good weather day at Petrified Forest NP. At least not as far as wind is concerned. 🤣

Not sure when this was filmed but I was there last week and had a blast. Lot of cool things to see. The little hike in the Blue Forest and Crystal Forests were my favorite bits. Arizona has been my favorite state to visit so far as I travel the country, just nonstop driving views and things to see and places to visit.

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

This was filmed on the 16th. We try to always write the date videos were filmed in our descriptions (though it is possible I might have missed one or two on our very early videos). 👍 The hikes through the park are pretty spectacular and varied. We covered a few in other videos on previous visits. And agree about Arizona. The scenery is so varied that there seems to be no limit on places to check out.

@travellingslim

2 жыл бұрын

@@CactusAtlas Ah, my mistake for not noticing that. Thanks for the clarification! I was there on the 17th so I just missed you. Currently in California and just got done with Joshua Tree and Death Valley and while they are both unique and great in their own ways, I can't help but feel a bit spoiled after just coming from the amazing places in Arizona. Hopefully when I make it to the redwoods and up the coast all the way to Olympic it will bring back those feelings again :) Starting to get real hot in the low desert.

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Oh no, not your mistake. It's hidden in the description unless one clicks to enlarge it so easy to miss. That's just KZread for ya! 😂 Joshua Tree and Death Valley are both awesome places. Been to both (Death Valley twice now) but haven't made it up to the Redwoods or Olympia. Starting to get a bit jealous now. Haha!

I have been there

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

It's one of our favorites! Then again... most parks in Arizona are. Haha!

If one should be interested in exactly how lithification occurs a current observable example exists at Mt ST Helens. At the petrified forest in the past, literally train loads were removed. A nice video to entice folk to go see for yourself. be aware removing any thing is a finable offense and your vehicle and person can be searched. Read on the entry regs if this is a problem for you. I visited there and it was a policy of our entering to be informed of the issue.

G'day mate ..as an Aussie prospector and timber miller, I found your content fantastic on so many levels. Well done

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks so much!

Those trees have just become acessible in the overall time scale of it. once the sea that formed in the middle of the country drained out that erosion finally exposed a far older event that put those trees under the ground millions of years before. the time scale is mind-boggling

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

It really is!

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When I was a kid, you could purchase a fragment of the petrified wood in the visitors' center. I don't know whether that option is still available. Awesome place, that's for sure.

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

There's still some rather beautiful (albeit pricey) pieces in the Rainbow Forest Lodge gift shop near the museum. Outside of the park there's also dozens of little stores on the side of the highways that sell pieces too. One day we're going to have to actually BUY something rather than TALKING about it. 😂

What I find interesting is many of the petrified looking logs look like they were cut with a saw.

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

It sure looks like it, doesn't it? Especially some that look so clean cut. My guess is that it is the result of shifting ground and pressure over great time causing stress fractures.

@lc285

2 жыл бұрын

@@CactusAtlas - It would seem under such violent destruction stress fractures would cause the wood to splinter.

@CactusAtlas

2 жыл бұрын

In some early cases, possibly and the trees would have probably disintegrated to nothing, but it was no longer wood when some of those fractures happened.

Do you happen to know why many of them look like they've been sliced through and what process may have caused it?

@CactusAtlas

Жыл бұрын

Not 100% sure but since it essentially becomes like rock, my guess is any pressure they sustained over time (be it from rain, earth, etc) simply split them.