Posted on 06/29/2007 9:02:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
A buried treasure of trees
A Washington state man who always loved to dig in the dirt unearths a petrified forest, covered by lava 15 million years ago while still upright.
By Tomas Alex Tizon
Times Staff Writer
June 28, 2007
Yakima, Wash. — Clyde Friend's life changed the moment his bulldozer hit the first tree on a hot summer afternoon in 2002 as he leveled a hill behind his workshop. Chips flew everywhere, a small explosion of brown and white shards.
He hopped off the dozer to investigate. There, embedded in the hill, was a mostly intact fossilized tree trunk standing upright in solid rock. "Well, that's different," he recalls thinking.
A heavy-machine operator for most of his working life, Friend was used to finding bits of petrified wood now and then. He'd never bumped into anything like this.
For the next several days, in the privacy of his remote 10-acre lot, Friend dug up the rest of his find by chipping away the surrounding rock. It turned out to be a petrified hickory tree, 18 feet tall and as big around as a cantaloupe.
He extracted it in pieces and put it in storage, thinking it could be worth something someday. Then he went back to leveling the hill — until he hit the second tree. It was the same height as the first, but thicker. The third tree was identical, but the fourth took his breath away: 20 inches in diameter.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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Clyde Friend is unearthing a 15-million-year-old forest at his property in central Washington. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times) April 26, 2007 |
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Clyde Friend holds a section of a petrified tree limb found on his property. He's unearthing a forest that's more than 15 million years old. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times) April 26, 2007 |
Ping!
Cool!
His hands tell another great story.
Talk about an old-growth forest!
Naaaaaaaaaaahh. Couldn't happen....could it? Naaaaaaaaaaahh.
I suppose there is just no chance that these trees were buried more recently in a really big flood?
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From reading the article, your question above could surely be answered in the affirmative, if you intend to rewrite the Bible so that the rain that fell for 40 days and nights was actually lava.
Made of wood
Covered by lava while still standing
And they say that creationism stretches credibility!
Trees.
Made of wood
Covered by lava while still standing
- Yup - no ashes or cindering - in fact the picture shows bark on the out side of the hunk hes holding
Dem is shur sum heat pruf treez.
now you know they cannot PROVE it to be 15 million years right ?
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Covered by lava while still standing
And they say that creationism stretches credibility!
There are lots of different kinds flows that come from volcanoes. Some are hot. Some are cold. Some are heavy, some are light and fluffy.
Any Spotted Owls found yet?
I believe we must remember the “fire triangle” here when wondering “Why, if trees covered by lava, would they still have their bark?”
To have combustion, one must have 3 elements: A heat source (the lava), fuel (the bark) and oxygen (not present if the trees were covered quickly by the lava; the lack of oxygen is further shown by the presence of the wood itself, for if there was sufficient oxygen to consume the bark, the entire tree would’ve been consumed).
To deny that these trees are surrounded by lava would be to deny basic geological practices that can determine what kind of rock a rock is. Thus, we must conclude they were covered by a “flood of lava”, not a flood of water. The presence of the bark is inconsequential and fully explainable by the logic above.
Don’t get too excited, it looks like they were covered by ash and cinder to me.
Not yet but I'm sure someone is working on a reason why he must be stopped.
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