Abandoned for Almost 100 Years on Route 66

Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in the Navajo and Apache counties of northeastern Arizona. A 1933... more

by Bob and Nadine Johnston

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Abandoned for Almost 100 Years on Route 66

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Bob and Nadine Johnston

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Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in the Navajo and Apache counties of northeastern Arizona. A 1933 Studebaker lies Abandoned in The Painted Desert National Park, for Almost 100 Years. It takes forever to break down steel in the Deserts. Photo is a section of Old Route 66 which went through the National Park before it was a park, when it was still a dirt road through Arizona to California. It may still be here, several Hundred Years from now. An example of what people have been doing to the Environment for all recorded History. It is only in fairly recently History that we have begun taking steps to protect the environment.

The headquarters is 26 miles east of Holbrook off Interstate 40. Averaging about 5,400 feet in elevation, the park has a dry windy climate with temperatures that vary from summer highs of about 100 �F to winter lows well below freezing. More than 400 species of plants, dominated by grasses such as bunchgrass, blue grama, and sacaton, are found in the park. Fauna include larger animals such as pronghorns, coyotes, and bobcats; many smaller animals, such as deer mice; snakes; lizards; seven kinds of amphibians, and more than 200 species of birds, some of which are permanent residents and many of which are migratory. About half of the park is designated wilderness.

The area is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic, about 225 million years ago. The sediments containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million years ago, the Colorado Plateau, of which the park is part, was pushed upward by tectonic forces and exposed to increased erosion. All of the park's rock layers above the Chinle, except geologically recent ones found in parts of the park, have been removed by wind and water. In addition to petrified logs, fossils found in the park have included Late Triassic ferns, cycads, ginkgoes, and many other plants as well as fauna including giant reptiles called phytosaurs, large amphibians, and early dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been unearthing and studying the park's fossils since the early 20th century.

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July 19th, 2014