I finally made it up to the Agate House in the nearby Petrified National Forest Park. where there is nothing but the hot wind, the painted desert and this small 8 room pueblo built out of petrified wood.

http://www.nps.gov

I like the desert. I like it's sense of timelessness, a sense of eternity and yet it's geological evolution is incredible. Triassic dinosaurs populated this area when it was part of the inland sea.

I was thinking: 65-68 million years ago but the ranger said it was 225 million years ago. Crocodile-like reptiles called Phytosaurs, 40ft(12m) long are the most common fossile in the park.

Visibly rock in the Grand Canyon is more than 2 billion years old.

The ancient Gree...

I finally made it up to the Agate House in the nearby Petrified National Forest Park. where there is nothing but the hot wind, the painted desert and this small 8 room pueblo built out of petrified wood.

http://www.nps.gov

I like the desert. I like it's sense of timelessness, a sense of eternity and yet it's geological evolution is incredible. Triassic dinosaurs populated this area when it was part of the inland sea.

I was thinking: 65-68 million years ago but the ranger said it was 225 million years ago. Crocodile-like reptiles called Phytosaurs, 40ft(12m) long are the most common fossile in the park.

Visibly rock in the Grand Canyon is more than 2 billion years old.

The ancient Greeks, I learned, use to find lots of such fossiles too and probably their myths, mythological creatures, belief in previous races, giant races and maybe even gods, were part of "theories," to explain such bones.