Reaching the Petrified Forest on the next morning, Annette discovers that the wood is not the way she has expected it to be.
But no, of course there are no stoned trees standing in the countryside. The Petrified Forest is a large accumulation of trunks and pieces of timber that have been swept to this place by a mud avalanche. First it was covered almost airtight, and then there was more and more an exchange of timber and solicit acid. That is a process that received the timber structure.

The huge trunks can’t get up again of course – so we see a large number of them lying in the plain. Some of the large trunks cover stones, which are transformed wood by solicit acid as well. Besides, even the annual rings reveal themselves with several trees still well. To conclude from the rings on the age, however, is treacherous. Since depending on where the tree has stood once he can have had two growth phases in the year absolutely.

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