This month, after intending to do it
for the past 50 years, I visited the Painted Desert and the Petrified
Forest. Had the park pretty much to myself, too. At Rainbow Forest, I
picked up several books, including:
PETRIFIED WOOD: The World of Fossilized
Wood, Cones, Ferns and Cycads, by Frank J. Daniels. 170 pages,
illustrated. Western Colorado, $75
“Petrified Wood” is aimed at
collectors – pretty pictures and not much else. The text is
accurate, so far as it goes, which is not very far.
There is almost nothing about
lithology, nothing about botany. No maps, although the specimens
pictured come from all over.
If the pictures were outstanding, the
book could stand as a coffee table book for the incurious. They are
not, so at the price, it was a poor bargain.
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