Ancient Kauri, you say?

[fitness1]

I wonder how many geetars you could make from a tree that size???

Pretty wild discovery under 26 feet of soil!

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-tre...J2Qmafl9g61pt0

[KenL]

Not sure that I understood all of that, but that's a helluva big tree! Wonder how it got buried so deep?

[RalphH]

It's amazing that something as fundamentally biodegradable as a lump of wood is still there intact after 42,000 years. Makes you think all the junk we put in the ground and how long it'll be there :/

[Dru Edwards]

I've got a couple of shovels, who wants to dig with me in my back yard? Thinking we might find some 42 year old pine or spruce.

[TomB'sox]

Originally Posted by RalphH

It's amazing that something as fundamentally biodegradable as a lump of wood is still there intact after 42,000 years. Makes you think all the junk we put in the ground and how long it'll be there :/

I would have to think the first 2-3 feet of it would be pretty soft.

[FLRon]

Originally Posted by RalphH

It's amazing that something as fundamentally biodegradable as a lump of wood is still there intact after 42,000 years. Makes you think all the junk we put in the ground and how long it'll be there :/

My thoughts exactly. Every time I drive by a Florida mountain,aka a landfill, I think of how we are decimating this environment for every future generation.

[Inyo]

Kauri does indeed make an unusual tonewood.

[fazool]

Originally Posted by RalphH

It's amazing that something as fundamentally biodegradable as a lump of wood is still there intact after 42,000 years. Makes you think all the junk we put in the ground and how long it'll be there :/

I saw a story on archeologists who went "digging" in a municipal landfill. The most intact things they found were paper phonebooks. They were so dense that oxygen couldn't get in to the inner pages and promote decay.

[Brucebubs]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

I've got a couple of shovels, who wants to dig with me in my back yard? Thinking we might find some 42 year old pine or spruce.

.. among the skeletons Dru?

[DenverSteve]

I wonder if I could commission a sinker-Kauri OM?

[Tim Mullin]

Certified ancient Kauri, “Whitebait swimming in waves” figure

[Silly Moustache]

Originally Posted by Inyo

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Late Pleistocene in geologic age, roughly 41,000 years old--paleobotanically significant specimens that famously occur in peat bogs in New Zealand. About three thousand years older than the oldest vertebrate-bearing stratigraphic horizon in the world-famous La Brea Tar Pits along Wilshire Boulavard in Los Angeles, California. Available taphonomic evidence supports the postulation that the Ice Age kauri trees, when periodically toppled by wind storms, fortuitously fell into actively accumulating peat bogs, where humic acid and anaerobic conditions created an environment conducive to decay prevention, allowing the original vegetable constituents to survive thousands of years of burial.

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Er yeah, that was what I was gonna say .....

[Inyo]

Originally Posted by Inyo

Kauri does indeed make an unusual tonewood.

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

That was what I was gonna say.

Fascinating.

[marty bradbury]

Originally Posted by Dru Edwards

I've got a couple of shovels, who wants to dig with me in my back yard? Thinking we might find some 42 year old pine or spruce.

I'll watch, but thanks for the invite

[fitness1]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

Er yeah, that was what I was gonna say .....

You always were a smart feller....