The perfectly preserved wood was aged between 15 million and 30 million years old. Zoë Thomas/University of SouthamptonThomas/University of Southampton
The perfectly preserved wood was aged between 15 million and 30 million years old. Zoë Thomas/University of SouthamptonThomas/University of Southampton
I once had a girl
Or should I say she once had me
She showed me her room
Isn’t it good Norwegian wood?
She asked me to stay
And she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around
And I noticed there wasn’t a chair
I sat on a rug biding my time
Drinking her wine
We talked until two and then she said
“It’s time for bed”
She told me she worked
In the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn’t
And crawled off to sleep in the bath
And when I awoke I was alone
This bird had flown
So I lit a fire
Isn’t it good Norwegian wood?
Has anyone looked at the map of Pangea? Antarctica was probably on the equator.
We had a nicely forested small island just offshore...Squaw Island, now renamed something-or-other...that had all of its trees killed by nesting seabirds.
In the 1970’s I was working as a medic at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope. One of the oil rig drillers told me about a forearm-sized piece of tree branch that came up in the drilling mud from 2000 feet down that had the impression of a vine wrapped tightly around it. That was from a while back. There are no trees above the Arctic Circle at this time although there is driftwood washed west from the Mackenzie River in Canada on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
Wow! That wood is in incredible shape for its age. Heckuva find.
