a fossilized Nothofagus tree trunk in the Antarctic.
...And here I’ve been bragging about my 7,000 year old wood.
Weren’t you supposed to call your doctor after 4 hours?
IMO your piece of wood has much more chance of being 7,000 YO than the Hungarian find being anywhere NEAR the age it is claimed to be...
btw, I read again recently that the first wood discovered on the Antarctic continent was also UNFOSSILIZED and BURNED as fuel...however, there were no standing trees discovered, they were all snapped off at ground level.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050404antarctic-fossil.htm
“...From a catastrophist point of view, there are many questions raised by the Antarctic forest. How accurate is the system by which the trees were dated? Was late Permian really 260 million years ago? Geologists consider this figure accurate, along with the “known” age of the Earth. And it’s all backed by absolute radiometric dating techniques. Fifty years ago, they were equally confident of a different age, and another age fifty years before that. But this time they’re sure they’ve got it right...”
a fossilized Nothofagus tree trunk in the Antarctic.
A fossil tree trunk in the Lybian Desert?
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/libya/Sud_libyen_pg01.html
And in Argentina:
http://www.australaddr.com/patagonia/petrified_forests.htm
On the island of Lesvos:
http://www.windmillstravel.com/article.php?id=146&destination=17&destinationtype=island