Lake Ronkonkoma. 1  This centrally located Suffolk County hamlet is perfectly situated for easy commuting, with an LIRR station, the Long Island Expressway and the Long Island MacArthur Airport within its borders.
Petrified wood (from the Greek root petro meaning rock or stone; literally wood turned into stone) is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. It is the result of a tree or tree-like plants having completely transitioned to stone by the process of permineralization.rtificial petrified wood has been produced in a Washington laboratory. In the process, small cubes of pine are soaked in an acid bath for two days, then in a silica solution for another two. The product is then cooked at 1400 Â°C in an argon atmosphere for two hours.
However, petrified wood is a very nice find for any rock hound! Well, petrified wood is wood that has turned to stone. The wood does this through a process that is known as per mineralization. This is when the organic materials in the wood have been replaced with minerals, such as quartz.etrified is a unique type of fossil, because it is an actual 3D dimensional representation of the tree. The wood is petrified when wood is buried underground and suffers a loss of oxygen. Wood usually takes less than a hundred years to petrify, and there are entire woods that are made up of petrified wood.