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30 Million Years Old!
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This is a piece of a Cyprus tree trunk found in an excavation site near Leipzig, Germany. The scientists estimate that it is between 27 and 30 million years old. It has become silicified (impregnated with silicon)

It is not a great photo but a photo of an interesting object.

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