Saturday, October 14, 2006

Petrified wood near my neighbourhood!

Samuel and Sandra at suntec Food Court
Few days ago I was taking a stroll with my kids out near my home and found these strange stones in the garden park. When I took a closer look, I realised they were petrified wood that became stones. Never saw them before there, I think the estate people bought them and put them in the garden. There were a lot of them as you can see. Petrified wood came from prehistoric era (jurassic..sound a bell?) and over millions of years of sand (silicon) deposits into individual cells in the trunk thus forming a stone that looks just like the tree trunk.

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