as far as dirt that is wood, i recently learned that there’s actually very little evidence in support of the hypothesis that Cambrian coal formed due to a lag period between the evolution of tree-behavior characterized by extremely dense lignin and cellulose and the evolution of organisms capable of digesting them, which was a very romantic idea for me so i’m goring through a bit of a grieving process right now
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- this one’s a real puzzler. how did the tree get full of mineral soil above grade? just windblown clay depositing in a hollow over years and years?
- real standard, classic wood-dirt. hard to go wrong
- quite a bit of this wood had become dirt near the bottom, but the rest of the wood was good - solid 30” oak logs. anybody wants to make a table out of em and has machinery capable of scooting ~2300lbs through a narrow passage, they’re still there on the sidewalk cut through south of Devon & Caldwell toward Louise
- a neat mound of wood-dirt on top of a stump is pretty funny to look at, especially if you’re not the one who has to sharpen the chainsaw that went through it

