Abstract: Due to a unique set of circumstances, we were able to excavate an entire spruce (Picea) forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, USA, which was buried in the early Holocene (9928 ± 133 uncalibrated 14C years bp). Trees ranged from < 5 cm to > 50 cm in diameter, and dominants were approximately 9 m tall. The stand was multi-aged, with a number of trees over 120 years old. Well-preserved stem cross-sections were recovered, the entire stand was mapped, and field diameter measurements were made on most trees. Data from all stem cross sections are included here, including some that were not used by the authors of Pregitzer et al. (2000; citation below).Gribben buried forest site map and tree measurement data | Kurt Pregitzer | Michigan Technological University | 3-27-2025
What happened 11,000 years ago to bury an entire forest like that?........Must have been a flood or something..................
A friend of my nephew found a rather large number of really big chunks of petrified wood and one very large agate (I want to say 50 pounds?) somewhere in Oregon. He posted pictures on his YouTube channel, and the Smithsonian Institute made him a member of some sort.
Perfectly preserved....She doesn’t look a day over 26.