Author: United States National Park Service

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-06

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781396639777

Excerpt from Petrified Forests of Yellowstone: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho Greatly magnified, this bit of an ancient Yellowstone tree typifies the silent records stored in Yellowstone's little known fossil forests. Annual growth rings representing years in past eons contrast with today's pine needles fallen on the petrified wood's exposed surface. Magic. You look at Yellowstone National Park's fantastic features and see magic. No matter how much you understand the what, where, when, how, and why of this wonderland, its magical qualities remain. Our minds may grasp the immense age and processes geologists detect in the earth's crust, but our feelings remain paramount. Confronted with geysers, mud pots, fumaroles, and majestic water falls, a part of us still tips its hat to magic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.