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September 22, 2014

Black and white photo of Ginkgo in NYC

Black and white photography by Woody Campbell:
a Ginkgo tree, Park Avenue (originally known as Fourth Avenue) in New York City.
Woody is taking one photo a day for the rest of his life and puts them on his blog.

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September 14, 2014

Ginkgo petrified wood

Ginkgo petrified wood at the Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park / Wanapum Recreational Area, Vantage, Washington.
Petrified wood was discovered in the region in the early 1930s, which led to creation of the park as a national historic preserve. Over 50 species are found petrified at the site, including Ginkgo.
'During the Miocene epoch, around 15.5 million years ago, the region was lush and wet, home to many plant species now extinct. A number of these trees were buried in volcanic ash, and the organic matter in the tree trunks was gradually replaced by minerals in the groundwater; the resulting petrified wood was protected for millennia by flows of basalt. Near the end of the last ice age, the catastrophic Missoula Floods (about 15,000 BC) eroded the basalt, exposing some of the petrified wood.' Read more.
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September 05, 2014

Ginkgo fossil Jurassic

Wonderful photo by the Natural Sciences Department of  National Museum Cardiff, Wales:
"170 million year old Ginkgo fossil and one from our car park." Jurassic Ginkgo fossil.
More Ginkgo fossil info and photos on my website: Fossils-page.

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