http://www.ditt.it/eng/promozione_civilta_passato.htm
http://www.ditt.it/ima/01_civilta_del_passato.jpg
Dunarobba fossil forest
Avigliano Umbro
The peculiarity of these impressive archaeological finds is that the fossil trunks have kept their erect position and their woody structure. They date back to 3 million years ago and they reach 5 feet in diameter.
(3 million YO and NOT fossilized?)
http://www.internacional.edu.ec/publicaciones/arco_iris/001/english/magazine001.htm
The Petrified Forest of Argentina is located in the patagonian steppe, without practically any visible vegetation. It has an extension of 14000 hectares (34000 acres).
http://www.internacional.edu.ec/publicaciones/arco_iris/001/english/magazine001.htm
Meanwhile, in the Alps:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,druck-357366,00.html
Radical new theory
The tree trunk in the ice is part of a huge climatic puzzle that Joerin is analyzing for his doctoral thesis for the Institute for Geological Science at the University of Bern. And he is coming to an astonishing conclusion. The fact that the Alpine glaciers are melting right now appears to be part of regular cycle in which snow and ice have been coming and going for thousands of years...
“...(3 million YO and NOT fossilized?)....”
In Hill County, Montana, in 1989, I pulled a mussel shell out of the wall of a coulee. The sediments in which I found the shell were of late Cretaceous age, somewhere around 65-70 million years. The shell wasn’t fossilized at all...it looked like I had just plucked it right out of a creek. The mother-of-pearl was clear and beautiful.
Thanks! I’ve never gone seeking petrified wood, but once touched some petrified stumps in the courtyard of a hotel I stayed at in Tucumcari NM.
