Veres János: A bükkábrányi 8 millió éves mocsárerdő (Múzeumi Mozaik 7. Miskolc, 2007)

A preserved body has eyes, hair colour, fingerprint, DNA, and in cases, consumed diet before death. Studying the swamp forest provides similarly superb opportunities. The previously uncovered fossilized findings carried all the information regarding their shape and metric parameters. This helped in stratigraphical and taxonomical studies as basics of information gathering. With these preserved cypresses of ours we can conduct studies of millions of years old growth rings that enable us to obtain very accurate data from the geographical history of Central Europe in the Miocene via the methods of dendrocronology and dendroclimatology. In order to clear this: we are not talking about projecting the data from present day all the way to 12.400 B. C. in a linear 7-8 million year scale. We are to place the cypresses' cronological data in a global cronology of all times. In other words the trees will „poise"in a time 8 million years ago with their few hundred-year age. FUTURE Thorough and painstaking studies will give us the answers of how all this happened. A number of natural scientific studies are still to come. These will allow us for more detailed answers and naturally will pose new questions. The microscopical and xilotomical studies will reveal the exact taxonomy of the trees. Sedimentological studies will map the axis of rivers, currents, parameters of the riverbeds so forth. Vitrinreflexology and other hard coal strata studies will show the degree and timetable of carbonization in the form of coherent data. The Bükkábrány scientific data is expected to reveal well demonstrated and coherent results due partially to the fortunate find and also to the multidisciplionary studies. Placing this data in the big picture is another story. The extraordinary findings help to prove previous climatological, geological and paleobotanical