Fossil Schilderia: a fossil tree, is found within clayey sanstone strata in Arizona. One trunk,left, is crushed with rays still intact; and the other non-crushed has rays intact as well. Both fossil trunks are from nearby areas but have very different minerals involved in the fossilization process. Red, pink, and orange=ferric iron,black= manganese, and white natural quartz, and both would have silica. Each is without bark and probably limbs (but one is too short to notice).There is no evidence of degradation of the woody portion of the trunk. The strata, consistent with flood strata, in which these fossils are found are present throughout the Southwest US and even the Eastern US. However, schilderia was initially identified from Adamana AZ. The areas where these fossils are found are now High Desert (6500 ft above sea level). They represent examples of what appears to have been massive flooding and subsequent uplifting of the land in the past-and probably a "recent" past. See section on Geology in the Creation/evolution section of this website-for further explanation.
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