New findings have come to light in the area of petrified forest in Lesvos. Specifically, the following were found 14 trees that tell us a lot about the volcanic eruptions in the area before 18 million years.
As he said in AP-MPE the professor Nikos Zouros, director of the Museum of the Petrified Forest of Sigri Lesvos, “impressive tree trunks were discovered in a very good state of preservation, arranged in successive layers on top of each other”. Among them are large and small tree trunks and branches. “From the study of the formations in the area, it appears that the site represents an ‘old-growth valley”," said Mr. Zouros.
The excavations will continue until the fossilized trunks and other fossils are fully revealed in order to be preserved and studied.
The trunks of the trees were wiped out by the violence of the gases of the volcanic eruptions. Large quantities of volcanic ash initially covered the vegetation. Subsequently, heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding that swept the area, carrying away parts of tree trunks along with the volcanic ash. The giant mudflows blocked the valleys, piling up the tree trunks on top of each other, where they fossilised.
