| Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads | 
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Category: Book
Author: Frank J. Daniels
Publisher: Western Colorado Publishing Company
Studio: Western Colorado Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Western Colorado Publishing Company
Label: Western Colorado Publishing Company
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0966293800
Dewey Decimal Number: 561.16
EAN: 9780966293807
ASIN: 0966293800
Publication Date: September 1, 1998
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Product Description
176 pages with 430 full color photographs of some of the most beautiful fossil specimens in existence. Chapters include Paleobotany, Geology, Mineralogy, and Collecting Petrified Materials. Hundreds of specimens from private collections are for the first time available for public view. Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads presents photographs of fossil specimens from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Madagascar, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, and from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming in the United States. Photographs include a variety of types and genera of wood, including Araucaria, Woodworthia, Schilderia, Pentoxylon, Hermanophyton, oak, maple, tamarack, and Ginkgo; cones of Araucaria, Pararaucaria, Cycadeoidea, and Sequoia; and the ferns Tietea singularis, Tempskya, and Osmundacaulis.
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PETRIFIED WOOD by Frank J Daniels August 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful volume that is a visual treat for any enthusiast in the area of geology, paleontology, rocks and minerals. It's an attractive "coffee table" book replete with page after page of gorgeous color plates of the world's loveliest petrified wood specimens. There are also text portions that explain the geology and history of the fossilized wood. Some of the paleobiological terms are quite technical. It's not for everyone, but the book is beautiful for those with eyes that find fascination in ancient trees that have now turned to mineralized stone.
Can they be that beautiful? September 15, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Iy you are a layman, you will certainly ask whether "rock like " items like these can be so pretty. When you read on and understand that nature is actually the artist behind them, then you will start to appreciate that their brilliant color, the pretty pattern as well as the variety of what used to be living trees in this planet millions of years ago are not any less beautiful than the common gems and precious stones which we are much more familiar with. The excellent photos will certainly tempt one to read the book again and again . The only regret is perhaps the lack of more publications on these gems, despite a second and equally attractive book by the same author.
Blaze of color October 11, 2000
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
As the various reviews point out this book is a blaze of color. Excellently photographed and excellently printed this volume gives a good impression of how beautiful petrified wood can be. This work is perfectly suited as a coffee table book.As a wood anatomist I cannot help feeling that an even more beautiful book could be produced by shifting the focus to anatomy: when magnified these woods would look even better. I guess a palaeobotanist would agree with me that this would make for, from a scientific point of view, a more usable and valuable book. Nevertheless this is a magnificent piece of work: there are some quite stunning pictures in here.
Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood February 1, 2000
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
The best photographic presentation of petrified wood I have every seen. Frank Daniels' love of the subject can be seen in his work as laid out between the covers of this superb book. I totally enjoy showing non palaeontologically minded people this book when they visit. If a person is looking for a photographic presentation of petrified wood, then this would have to be the book. I heartily recommend it. Congratulations Frank on a terrific book.
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