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The desert Southwest has sunsets like nowhere else I’ve ever seen. I’ve always found the Petrified Forest fascinating. I mean you’re standing there in the presence of rocks that used to be living trees, trees that lived next to dinosaurs.
Geologically how old are these trees? Isotopic geological data and other dating methods give dates from the youngest layers of the Black Forest Bed about 211 million years ago to the oldest Blue Mesa layers at about 218 million years ago.
How freaking awesome is it that you—a human who in the greater scheme of things has a miniscule lifespan—can reach out and touch something with that kind of history and connect with it on some level?
