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pl23_cgs02398.jpg

Stopping to do some site seeing at or in present day Petrified ForestNational Park

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Description

Stopping to do some site seeing at or in present day Petrified ForestNational Park. The tree the man is sitting on was alive over 200 million yearsago.

Credit

Courtesy of Family of Captain Ray Schoppe, USC&GS; (dec.)

Display Date

1920 summer

Location

Arizona

Collection

Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey

Keywords

Coast and Geodetic Survey