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Lesvos Petrified Forest. The Lesvos Petrified Forest is a petrified wood forest on the island of Lesbos, Greece.. The forest was formed from the fossilized remains of plants and trees, which can be found in many localities on the western part of Lesbos Island. [1]
They are large, deciduous trees that are 15–30 m (50–100 ft) tall and diameters of 4 m (13 ft), [2] distinguished by thick, deeply fissured bark and triangular-based to diamond-shaped leaves that are green on both sides (without the whitish wax on the undersides) and without any obvious balsam scent in spring.
Fossils have also recently been found in Antarctica. [5] The ecoregion covers the windward eastern side of Grand Terre, New Caledonia's mountainous main island, as well as the smaller Loyalty Islands to the east and the Isle of Pines to the south of Grand Terre. The ecoregion covers an area of 14,600 square kilometers (5,600 sq mi).
The paleobotanical record of the island of Madeira reveals that laurisilva forests have existed on this island for at least 1.8 million years. [16] Around 50 million years ago, during the Paleocene, Europe took the form of a set of large islands spread through what was the Tethys Sea. The climate was wet and tropical with monsoon summer rains. [17]
Argentina – the Sarmiento Petrified Forest and Jaramillo Petrified Forest in Santa Cruz Province in the Argentine Patagonia have many trees that measure more than 3 m (9.8 ft) in diameter and 30 m (98 ft) long. [38] Brazil: in the geopark of Paleorrota, there is a vast area with petrified trees. [39] In the Heritage forest
Officials of the GSI believe the fossils were formed during massive flooding that occurred millions of years ago. [8] The park hosts about 200 fossilized trees. They range in size from 3 to 15 metres (9.8 to 49.2 ft) meters in length, some of which are up to 5 meters in width. [1] They are strewn and partially buried in the park grounds. [6]
There is a wide variety of native trees, adapted to all the various micro-climates in New Zealand. The native bush ( forest ) ranges from the subtropical kauri forests of the northern North Island , temperate rainforests of the West Coast , the alpine forests of the Southern Alps and Fiordland to the coastal forests of the Abel Tasman National ...
The park includes 56 archaeological sites, representing various eras from the Paleo-Indian period (10,000 to 12,000 years ago) up to the 20th century. The site of the Spanish-era Mission San Francisco de Potano, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, is in the park.