2006-09-14 04:31:17 · 10 answers · asked by bengal 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
petrified wood is fossilized wood, so petrified forests are forests of fossils
2006-09-14 04:32:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've been to a petrified forest. While it can be very *enchanting*, I don't think I would call it enchanted! It is a very natural process, described by several people above, where the trees fell down millions of years ago and were covered by sand rich in ash when the area flooded. The silica from the sand and colored by the minerals, over time, replaced the wood, making petrified or fossilized wood. It is usually very colorful and beautiful, but is not a standing forest. See the link below for what a large log looks like. There are several of these around the US and even in Greece!
Hopes this answers your question.
2006-09-14 13:15:52 · answer #2 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an ancient forest in which all of the long dead trees have been turned into petrified wood through the process of mineralization.
2006-09-14 11:33:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't mean 'the enchanted Forest'! Actually it is the opposite of it!
A petrified forest consists of TREES, INSECTS etc that have DIED & then been CHANGED into STONE over a long period of time. (Fossils of Trees, animals, insects etc etc))
Source: Oxford Advance Learner's Dictionary
2006-09-15 17:23:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A petrified forest is a forest with trees that have fossilised wood.
2006-09-14 11:40:31 · answer #5 · answered by WheelchairBA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a forest that's really really scared.
(no- actually it's in northern arizona. A rather barren landscape, and there's an area that has a lot of petrified trees. they're not standing.
2006-09-14 12:44:51 · answer #6 · answered by Morey000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Petrified wood is dead wood. So a petrified forest is a forest of dead trees. Trees that have been in a fire or something. So no, it is not nearly the same as an enchanted, or magical, forest.
2006-09-14 11:33:02 · answer #7 · answered by happymommy 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No, it doesnt mean the same thing,
but it could be the same place.
Petrification means turned to Stone.
So the tree's wood is replaced cell by cell by the mineral called Silica
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2006-09-14 11:32:42 · answer #8 · answered by Scooby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Petrified and enchanted are two VERY different things.
Petrified, means it has been turned to stone through time.
Enchanted is... well... NON-EXISTANT.
http://www.northern.edu/natsource/earth/Petrif1.htm
2006-09-14 11:40:09 · answer #9 · answered by ICG 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No its dead wood that has turned into fossils.
2006-09-14 11:39:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋