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English: Plate XXVII from The Geology of the Richmond Basin published by USGS, which has the following caption:
A petrified tree (Araucarioxylon sp.) on public road south of Otterdale.
(Otterdale is located at the intersection of Otterdale Road/Route 667 and Genito Road/Route 604, in Chesterfield County, VA.)
The text of the report refers to the figure as follows:
In the region about Otterdale, on either side of Swift Creek, prostrate trunks, from 15 to 25 feet or more in length, having a diameter of from 2 to 4 feet, may be seen. One of the longest of these trees lies across the public road about 1 mile southwest of Otterdale. A view of this fossil log, as partially exhumed in 1897, is shown in the accompanying illustration (Pl. XXVII).
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Source Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and Jay Backus Woodworth, 1899. Geology of the Richmond Basin, Virginia. U.S. Government Printing Office. United States Geological Survey.
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