Petrified Forest Reserve (New Cairo)

 nature reserve, interesting place, UNESCO World Heritage Site

The Fossilized Forest Reserve
Date of Announcement: 1989
Area: 7 km 2
Type: Geological protected area and national heritage
Distance from Cairo: 30 km

Region is rich in petrified forest density of legs and trunks of trees in the composition of fossil wood and mountain, which belongs to the era Aloolijusyny consists of layers of sand and gravel and a child and fossilized wood thickness ranges 70 - 100 m. It is remarkably rich in the remains of trunks, stems, large petrified trees, which take the form of Slater sections of cylindrical ranging in size from centimeters to several meters, and gather together in the form of fossilized forest. Therefore, it is likely that the composition of Maadi Petrified Forest due to a branch of the Nile River since ancient geological times immemorial, has led to these trees and long-distance speech in this place then Thfr (petrified).

Is a petrified forest in Maadi (a suburb of Cairo), which was formed over millions of years from the time the third periods Alcaenozoi, called on the petrified forest in many scientific references the name of the mountain wood.

This is the geology of the region have rarely does not unprecedented in the world in terms of expanding and updating.

Location:

The Fossilized Forest Reserve is located some 18 kilometers east of the town of Maadi in Cairo Governorate north of the road Katameya - Al Ain Sokhna.

And the Fossilized Forest Reserve in Maadi is a plateau is almost flat with some hills and cliffs, and covers an area protected for the most part composition Wood Mount Aloolijusyn era of the "32 - 35 million years."

There is also a jungle density of stems and trunks of trees in the composition of fossil wood and mountain that belongs to the era Aloolijusyni This sediment is poor in fossils and remains of the non-rich that it significantly and the remains of trunks, stems, large petrified trees, which take forms of Slater Schlesip of cylindrical sections, ranging in size from centimeters to several meters, which join together in the form of fossilized forest.