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It took John two months to pull the tree out of the ground, and it took Paul a further three months to piece it back together. And this is the prehistoric piece of Wiltshire it has revealed. Well, here' s a far looking across east towards London, as far as the eye can see is a lagoon, a broad expanse of water. And fringing that lagoon going north and south would have been this forest. This is how Paul believes the world of John' s tree looked. It' s about 15, 20 metres in height, and it' s got this broad, expanding crown of branches. But Paul' s also been able to unravel the extraordinary events that caused the tree to be fossilised in the first place. And how did our tree die? The tree died by the waters from the lagoon flooding the forest, probably due to a landslip caused by a small earthquake. The trees were literally killed by poisoning, pickling. They probably remained upright for maybe ten, 20 or 30 years, rotting slowly and then fallen over into the waters of the lagoon and be fossilised in that way. |
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yuē hàn yòng liǎng ge yuè bǎ shù wā chū lái, bǎo luó yòu yòng le sān ge yuè bǎ suì piàn pīn jiē qǐ lái. zhè jiù shì tā suǒ zhǎn shì de shǐ qián wēi ěr tè jùn, cóng zhè lǐ wǎng dōng xiàng lún dūn wàng qù, mù guāng suǒ jí zhī chù, shì yī piàn xián shuǐ hú, yī piàn kāi kuò de shuǐ yù. ér xián shuǐ hú de nán běi yán àn, jiù màn yán zhe zhè piàn sēn lín. bǎo luó tuī xiǎng gǔ shù dāng shí de wài mào shì zhè yàng de, tā dà yuē 15 dào 20 mǐ gāo, tā de shù guān fēi cháng kuān dà mào shèng. dàn bǎo luó hái jiě shì le zhè kē shù dāng chū shì rú hé qí jī bān dì chéng wéi huà shí de? zhè kē shù shì zěn me sǐ de? tā suǒ zài de sēn lín, bèi xián shuǐ hú de hóng shuǐ yān mò le. xiǎo dì zhèn dǎo zhì dì bēng yǐn qǐ hóng shuǐ. zhè kē shù sǐ yú zhòng dú hé xián shuǐ de jìn zì, tā dà gài yòu zhí lì le 10, 20 huò 30 nián, màn màn fǔ làn, rán hòu diē rù xián shuǐ hú zhōng, xíng chéng huà shí. |