Am currently reading; More Evidence of Rapid Geomagnetic Reversals Confirms a Young earth by Dr. Andrew A. Snelling, which sets out an alternative debate regarding the time scale for such a reversal . . . of months rather than thousands of years.

Then add, we already know these reversals regularly occur; so we can also take it as read that the majority of species survive. On a more personal level, my skull has a strong protruding rib from forehead to the back of the upper surface; strongly suggesting that I may have Neanderthal DNA within my body . . . which also means that, perhaps, everyone should accept that instead of their being made extinct; they have simply become a part of a deeper relationship with Homo Sapiens.

Is the trunk an example of mummified wood, so there's still carbon in it? Is the age determined by carbon dating?

The magnetic field has been known to be unreliable for years. To locate the position of transmitters of radio signals on earth, the receiving antennae have to be oriented to the North Star as a reliable true North for all radio signal locations. The magnetic north continues to wander and is unreliablewhen the changes occur.

The article describes the tree as fossilized, but doesn't state that it was petrified, rather that it was preserved, which one takes to mean it was not in fact fossilized. If the wood wasn't replaced by silica, then it was not fossilized.

These events are nothing new and very doubtful were a life changing event in comparison to volcanic and other geo thermo events. But who can say with any certainty. One thing is very clear that our world is more fragile than we realize and humans do little to help

I wonder if the magnetic field flips because the core is rotating and the Janibekov’s effect?

While a magnetic flip is unlikely to cause issues with life, our human world would go nuts for a while. "The whole would end like Y2K!" There would be quite a bit of corrections to make though.

You had me at: "The more we looked at the data, the more everything pointed to 42," says Turney. "It was uncanny."

:-) That's about all there is to say about that.

Okay, one more thing: This singular buried treesure (<< should be a word) demonstrates how [such as in a republic for which even ONE vote can still make a difference] every single artifact is a treasure... to be cherished for historical record keeping in all it's dimensions. Because one never knows what informational treasure it may yield.

Yet another way for Mother Nature to rid the Earth of us pests... :) :)

Our civilisation survives on an exceptionally thin knife edge, we dont realise it, but an event like this would be an extinction level event for our civilisation, not necessarily civilisation. ONE major system failure or major impact would have a domino effect that would be catastrophic. we had isolated populations with low technology and very very low numbers, we have BILLIONS now , are overpopulated , and live hand to mouth in exceptionally high tech cities.....i dont need to spell out how it would end.