[blam]

My neighbor is an immigrant from New Zealand. He has some amazing stories about these Kauri trees. They have been growing there for at least 150 million years. Even today, there is big money locating these ancient trees underground. The most expensive wood in the world.

Swamp kauri

"Swamp kauri, sometimes marketed as "ancient kauri", are prehistoric kauri trees (Agathis australis), buried and preserved in peat up to 50,000 years ago in New Zealand's North Island.[1][2] Buried under a peat swamp by an unexplained act of nature at the end of the last Ice Age, the trees have survived the centuries underground, sealed in a chemically balanced environment that has preserved the timber in perfect condition.[3]"

"The trees grew for nearly 2000 years before they were buried. Some have a girth of around 40 feet, and a total height of nearly 200 feet."

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam. I like the sound of that, "unexplained act of nature".

[Oatka]

Buried under a peat swamp by an unexplained act of nature at the end of the last Ice Age,

Immanuel Velikovsky has an interesting theory on that: Earth in Upheaval

[SunkenCiv]

Buried under a peat swamp by an unexplained act of nature at the end of the last Ice Age...

I've rounded up a few backstory topics and bumped 'em a little.