num_pages: 456
description: The most intriguing, beautiful, and informative fossil wood book of all time, exploring the subject with images illustrating each point. Frank Daniels and geologist Dick Dayvault team up to explore the intricacies of fossil wood by leading the reader on an expedition into the micro world of fossil wood mineralization and cell structures. In addition to macro and micro images, this book includes hundreds of large images, with some of the most beautiful and interesting petrified wood specimens in the world. 1600 color photographs, charts, and diagrams, including 438 fossil wood micro images, 40 Geologic Landscapes, and 46 thin section micrographs from modern conifers and hardwoods. 75 full page specimen photographs. Enormous 7 1/2 pound book with 456 11 by 12 inch pages 1600 color photographs, charts, and diagrams, including 438 fossil wood micro images, 40 Geologic Landscapes, and 46 thin section micrographs from modern conifers and hardwoods. 75 full page specimen photographs. Enormous 7 1/2 pound book with 456 11 by 12 inch pages. Specimen photographs from worldwide locations, including numerous woods, cones, ferns, cycads, and short shoots, including Acrostichum, Araucaria mirabilis, Araucarioxylon, Aurealcaulis moorei, Behuninia provoensis, Calamites, Carpolithus radiatus, Carporichnus bertheorum, Carya, Casuarina, Cupressinoxylon, Cyathodendron texanum, cycadeoid, Dadoxylon, Ginkgo, Grammatopteris, Hermanophyton glismannii, Hermanophyton taylorii, Jensensispermum redmondi, Juglans, Juniperus, Metasequoia, Osmunda, Palmoxylon, Pararaucaria, Pityoxylon, Platanoxylon, Podocarpoxylon, Protoyucca shadishii, Psaronius, Quercus, Rhexoxylon, Schilderia adamanica, Sequoia, Steinerocaulis radiatus, Taxodioxylon, Tempskya, Tietea singularis, Trochodendron, Ulmus, and Woodworthia. Fossil wood specimens from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, Germany, Gondwana, Great Britain, Greece, Indonesia, Malagasy Republic, Pangea, Paraguay, Turkey, and Zimbabwe; and from Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming in the United States. Major chapters address fossil wood structure and identification, the Process of wood transformation to stone, fossil woods from the Western United States and around the world, and three fantastic museum collections of fossil woods.
language: English
title: Ancient Forests: A Closer Look at Fossil Wood
titlecomplete: Ancient Forests: A Closer Look at Fossil Wood
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Western Colorado Pub Co