Maintained by the Geological Survey of India, Tiruvakkarai Fossil Wood Park is located at
Tiruvakkarai in
Viluppuram District of
Tamil Nadu. The wood fossils are spread over 247 acres in nine separate enclaves.
This Petrified Forest, 40 to 50 million years old, has trunks of various shapes lie strewn and half-buried in the soil.
It is believed that these petrified tree trunks are the bones of
Rakshasa or Demon slain on the spot by the
Lord Vishnu.
Tiruvakkarai is 19 km east of
Viluppuram and 30 km from
Pondicherry Town.
