Excavations for rainwater drainage pipes brought to light 14 petrified trees, in an area near Sigri and the region of Lesvos island’s Petrified Forest, ANA reports.
“The trunks were in a very good state of preservation – they are impressive logs laid on successive strata, one above the other,” professor Nikos Zouros, director of the Petrified Forest of Sigri Museum, speaking to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency. He said that the fossilized trunks were of both small and large trees, and included branches. They vary in age and are both conifers and fruit-bearing trees.
According to experts, the way the tress lie shows the violence of volcanic eruptions 18 million years ago.
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