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To: markedmannerf
How could wood become petrified in just a few thousand years? Doesn't it take millions of years?

If this is the Ark, then I believe I saw the Andrea Doria sticking out of a hilltop in Kentucky along I-75.

5 posted on 06/30/2006 6:55:09 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: Tokra
"How could wood become petrified in just a few thousand years? Doesn't it take millions of years?"

Under the right conditions, fossilization takes about 50 years.

For example, here is a fossilized hat:


12 posted on 06/30/2006 7:35:12 AM PDT by guitar4jesus (Black, Conservative . . . and I vote!)
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