Pole Shift and Taxodium. Part 2

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

After the biblical flood, a rainbow appeared for the first time, indicating a change in the conditions of life on Earth. This flood was worldwide. But not the only one. The incredible strength of the hydroshock generated by the pole shift periodically ravages vast areas. And there is a lot of evidence for this.

In the entry "Fact about the flood. To the Sibveda. Taxodium" I have already talked about the found and well-preserved taxodium grove in one of the quarries on the territory of Hungary. Trees, or rather stumps, 6-8 meters high were found at a depth of 60 meters.

We managed to find the report of the Hungarian scientist, Miklós KÁZMÉR. This report contains additional information that was previously unavailable and unique photographs. Here, for example, is one of them - pay attention, HOW WELL PRESERVED THE WOOD

Miocene Bükkábrány fossil forest in Hungary - field observations and project plan

The oldest standing forest was discovered in Bükkábrány, Hungary. In an open pit of brown coal, sixteen stumps were found, ranging from 1, 8 to 3, 6 m in diameter, standing at the top of a coal seam.

A fossil forest where trees stand upright and where the original structure of the forest has been preserved for various reasons is very rare.

The fossil forest was found in the Bükkábrány quarry in July 2007. Miners working on overburden of sand found tree trunks at a depth of 60 m on top of a coal seam. Carefully wishing to preserve these unusual trees, they removed the sand in layers over the overhanging 16 huge trees. At the request of the director of the Tibor mine, the local museum in Miskolc convened a team of geologists and paleontologists to study the sensational finds.

A team of geologists, paleontologists and soil scientists from Eötvös University and the Hungarian Museum of Natural History (Budapest) and St. Istvan University (Gödelle) was formed. Field observations and measurements were carried out on the shafts and on the rapidly changing sandy walls of the quarry. This article offers a first overview of the excavation.

Stratigraphy

Arcuate Carpathians surrounded by Lake Pannon at the end of the Miocene. Rapid rivers washed away the mountains and carried sand in abundance from the SE and NE, filling the lake - huge deltas settled.

In the Late Miocene, the lush forest produced enough organic matter to accumulate

in swamps in which coal seams were formed from sediments. The open mines in Vishonta and Bükkábrány are this coal.

Neither brown coal nor sandstone contained the necessary fossils to accurately determine the age of the layer on which the found forest grew.

But correlations from the sequence (well) of seismic lines made it possible to establish the age - about 7 million years.

Trees and forest

The trees have been identified as Taxodium or Sequioxylon. Taxodioxylon germanicum, associated with modern Sequoia - and Glyptostroboxylon SP. The top layer of coal gave abundant foliage and Glyptostrobus cones. In addition, previous studies reported alder, elm and became extinct

broadleaf shrub, Byttneriophyllum from nearby places. Pollen assemblage in brown coal testifies to species-rich bogs and floodplain forests dominated by Taxodiaceae.

Sharp ribs that are visible on several trees make them look like giant red sequoias. This genus is limited today to small areas in the mountains of California - it does not live in swamps. However, before the Ice Age, several species of Sequoia lived in the wetlands of America and Eurasia, as evidenced by the large amount of pollen in the sediments. Accurate identification of these trees, and others found as driftwood, is in progress.

The meaning of the fossil tree

Fossil forests have been found on all continents and at most geological ages. Their wood is mostly mineralized: converted into silica or carbonate, less often into pyrite. Forests preserved as a tree are extremely rare.

Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic gave some of the Eocene forest. The mummified trees here are either uprooted or survived by stumps only up to a few decimeters in height. The Dunarobba fossil forest in Italy, in the Apennines, is slightly mineralized, despite the fact that it is 2 million years old.

There are mummified, felled logs and vertical stumps up to half a meter high in the Eocene layers of the Arctic, in Canada. Erect, silicified or calcified stems are known from all continents and from most geological eras. However, finding such huge trees, in an upright position, is a great success.

The fossil forest in Bükábrány is the only place in the whole world where large trees have been preserved standing, with the original structure of fully preserved timber.

Burial places of brown coal are covered with gray sand. It is well-sorted, medium-coarse sand. Behaves like quicksand when saturated with water.

The kilometer-long walls in the quarry, as on display, show stratified sands. Adjacent to the base of the lignite, up to 1–2 m in height, it reflects the horizontal occurrence. Stratification is compounded by layers of organic residues

and snags

Small pebble strings embedded in the sand

have been seen attached to the trunks. Their function is to represent the bottom of the lake and the basis of the environment.

Upward, about 20 m thick, there is a layer of sand with an inclination of 15 degrees to the north.

This foresets are delta prograding,

layers lining the transition from the river delta to the bottom of the lake (in any case, as I understood it and posted this graphic for explanation - note. rodline).

The sand near the trees is gray, up to a maximum of 6 meters above brown coal. Above, there is sand of different colors: yellow and brown. The border of gray and yellow sand clearly matches the top of the tree trunks.

We believe that a sharp increase of 20 meters in the level of Lake Pannon took place in the forest 7 million years ago. At this time, some of the trees were already dead. The sand, carried by the rivers into the lake, filled up the tree trunks.

For 7 million years, the anoxic, bacteria-free environment has preserved the trees and their dispersed organic matter.

Hydrogeology

The Bükkábrány quarry is 2.5 km long, 1 km wide - these are open pits. Sixty meters of overburden is removed to reach a 12 meter low-calorie coal, lignite. Dozens of pumps lower the water table by 80 meters, so that all miners and technicians work in a dry pit.

Coal layers are strips 2 km long and less than 100 m wide. Fossil trees were found only on an area of 50 x 100 m. The exceptional preservation of wood, even in a quarry, is explained by a rare condition: gray sand, usually overlying coal seams about 0.5 m thick, here, about 6 meters thick.

Cutting conditions here allow the preservation of trunks up to 6 m in height. Found, it turns out, and other shafts, in another place, in the quarry, from time to time, as we were told by the miners.

Safety

At first glance, the trees look like normal (i.e. fresh - rootline note) wet wood, relatively soft when pressed with a finger. Only there was no bark, except in the pockets of the xylem encirclement.

Taxodiums are known for their ability to resist fungi and woodworm insects. Despite this, several trunks are severely damaged and filled with gray sand and / or pyrite.

Tangential cracks indicate different degradation processes

The elastic cellulose of the cell walls decayed in various directions, while the lignin was preserved. When wet, the trunks are exposed to sunlight and air. Strong curvature occurs when pore water evaporates.

To understand the type and pattern of subaerial fungal degradation and underwater bacterial decay, we compared the models using X-ray computed tomography and identified decaying agents through scanning with an electron microscope.

Although the tree trunks appear to have retained their original three-dimensional shape, the tree (apparently cellulose) inside the lignite has suffered.

Found lying log 12 m, thickness 0.8 m.

In general, upright trunks and fallen logs differ in shape, density and appearance.

At the root of the neck, it would seem, stumps were cut during the differential compaction of sand and brown coal with water

Trees suffered slight but widespread peeling and compaction over the entire surface.

Twelve trees out of sixteen were cut down (four of them were inaccessible due to quicksand). The location of the trees was recorded by the mine's geodetic service. Diameters at base, at chest height and at top were measured. Half of the discs, 20 cm thick, were cut with a chain saw. Overburden driftwood and sand were also taken. The samples are stored underwater in a tree ring laboratory at the Department of Paleontology at Eotvos University in Budapest to avoid drying out, warping and cracking.

The four trees were packed and removed to the Otto Hermann Museum in Miskolc, where they are preserved in various ways: one will be covered with wet sand, the other will be immersed in clean water, also in sugar and solutions of various concentrations.

Six barrels were treated with construction glue and various resins by the staff of Bükk National Park. They are now on display in the Fossil Park, Ipoltornotse.

During cutting of specimens for dendrochronological studies, narrow rings were found, less than 1 mm wide. At the top of the trunk, where the diameter is 80 cm, up to 400 rings were counted.

Unfortunately, fresh cuts oxidized within a few hours and the boundaries of the ring are not accessible for observation. We expected the trees to be much older.

there are fantasies - they did not seem interesting to me - read those who wish to follow the link to the source)

Summary of results and further research in progress

The preservation of the forest became possible due to the sudden rise in the level of Lake Pannon, the drowning of the forest, followed by filling it with sand from the delta. The saturation of the sand with water allowed the tree to survive for 7 million years, with a minimum of mineralization. Since it is the oldest known forest in the world preserved as a tree, the Bükkábrány quarry of the fossil forest deserves special research.

• Age of coal seams and forest.

• Taxonomy of fossil plants: trees, leaf flora, pollen of flora.

• Dendrochronology - age of trees, their relative age, changes (climate, seasonality, aridity, flood), forest structure: tree size, social

structure, comparison with modern wood.

• Isotopic studies of environmental carbon.

• Wood preservation - loss of cellulose, consistency and timing of fungal and

bacterial decomposition, mineralization.

• Neotectonics of overburden sections

Further, the author expresses gratitude to the workers and the directorate of the quarry and all specialized services who showed care and assistance in the study and preservation of the relic found. Thanks to the media covering the event, etc. etc.

The original report can be viewed here.

More about taxods:

I draw your attention to the indication in the article of the direction from which the sand covered the trees - from the north..