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.
One of the greatest concentrations of petrified wood in the world is found in the Petrified Forest National Park in North-east Arizona where petrified logs as long as 200 feet and 10 feet diameter have been found in the park.etrified Wood Ancient Forest Fossils Petrified wood is real wood that has been preserved for millions of years by the process of petrification.