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Crystal Forest |
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At first glance it might looke like a deserted lumber yard.
However, the
tree trunks here are hard as rock and their cross-sections are as colorful as
rainbow. Miracle happens once in billions of years and last time it left the
petrified wood here.
Most views in other parks require a distance (usually quite long)
to reveal the beauty of being large. In this place you still have to look at
a distance to feel the impact of quantity. However, you also need
to look up-close to feel the beauty
of shape and color as being small. Without the former is like watching a fossil
in a museum. Without the later is like watching at,
well, a deserted lumber yard.
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Petrified wood. The colors came from minerals
in the silica-saturated waters. Iron, carbon, manganese, cobalt and chromium
produced patterns and blends of yellow, red, black, blue, brown, white and
pink.
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