Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads (Hardcover)

~ Frank J. Daniels (Author), Brooks B. Britt (Editor), Richard D. Dayvault (Editor) "Paleontology is a science that developed late relative to other scientific disciplines..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review

"A worthwhile addition to a general library collection." -- CHOICE - Current Reviews for Academic Libraries

"Fit for a coffee table, Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads is functional and fascinating. Author Frank Daniels explores the beauty of time-honored nature through fluid language and brilliant photographs of rare, gem-quality petrified plants." -- The Daily Sentinel, August 23,1998

"This book is both a coffee table beauty and a most interesting and useful text." -- Rock & Gem magazine

'Petrified Wood' is beautifully illustrated and serves to introduce the novice to the gamut of fossil wood types.... For the professional paleobotanist, geologist, and paleontologist this illustrated survey of the major kinds of petrified woods from sites around the world can be quite useful.... A worthwhile addition to a general library collection. -- Choice

Rock & Gem magazine calls Petrified Wood "an exciting new book" with "superb photographs." "This book is both a coffee table beauty and a most interesting and useful text." "Most remarkable of all is the price: $75 for this attractive and useful 9-by-12-inch, 176 page book." -- Rock & Gem, November 1998

Product Description

176 pages with 430 full color photographs of some of the most beautiful fossil specimens in existence. Chapters include Paleobotany, Geology, Mineralogy, and Collecting Petrified Materials. Hundreds of specimens from private collections are for the first time available for public view.

Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, Cones, Ferns, and Cycads presents photographs of fossil specimens from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Madagascar, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, and from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming in the United States.

Photographs include a variety of types and genera of wood, including Araucaria, Woodworthia, Schilderia, Pentoxylon, Hermanophyton, oak, maple, tamarack, and Ginkgo; cones of Araucaria, Pararaucaria, Cycadeoidea, and Sequoia; and the ferns Tietea singularis, Tempskya, and Osmundacaulis.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Western Colorado Publishing Company; 1st edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966293800
• ISBN-13: 978-0966293807
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #49,345 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Petrified Wood: The World of Fossilized Wood, February 1, 2000

By	Paul Tierney (Brisbane, Australia.) - See all my reviews

The best photographic presentation of petrified wood I have every seen. Frank Daniels' love of the subject can be seen in his work as laid out between the covers of this superb book. I totally enjoy showing non palaeontologically minded people this book when they visit. If a person is looking for a photographic presentation of petrified wood, then this would have to be the book. I heartily recommend it. Congratulations Frank on a terrific book.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blaze of color, October 11, 2000

By	P. van Rijckevorsel (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As the various reviews point out this book is a blaze of color. Excellently photographed and excellently printed this volume gives a good impression of how beautiful petrified wood can be. This work is perfectly suited as a coffee table book.

As a wood anatomist I cannot help feeling that an even more beautiful book could be produced by shifting the focus to anatomy: when magnified these woods would look even better. I guess a palaeobotanist would agree with me that this would make for, from a scientific point of view, a more usable and valuable book.

Nevertheless this is a magnificent piece of work: there are some quite stunning pictures in here.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PETRIFIED WOOD by Frank J Daniels, August 23, 2008

By	James E. Roberts "jimstones" (Bay Area California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a beautiful volume that is a visual treat for any enthusiast in the area of geology, paleontology, rocks and minerals. It's an attractive "coffee table" book replete with page after page of gorgeous color plates of the world's loveliest petrified wood specimens. There are also text portions that explain the geology and history of the fossilized wood. Some of the paleobiological terms are quite technical. It's not for everyone, but the book is beautiful for those with eyes that find fascination in ancient trees that have now turned to mineralized stone.