Ming Tang

Understanding Earth Through Chemistry

Petrified Forest National Park

Petrified Forest is full of magical elements. Things are whimsical, odd and yet in perfect harmony together. Car wreckage, a desert inn from the early 20th century, pueblo built nearly a thousand years ago, silicified forest debries from hundreds of million years ago… This is a place where human history meets nature evolution. Walking in this desert, I felt the clock was turning back.

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The changing world.

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Painted Desert Inn, built in the early 1920s.

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A petrified tree stump.

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The Painted Desert.

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Car wreckage off the park driveway.

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Sunset.

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Sunset.

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A baby tree in the desert.

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Reconstructed Agate House, built by Ancestral Puebloan people using petrified wood sometime between 1050 and 1300.