Teluk Gedang Wood Fossil

Teluk Gedang Wood Fossil

In this geosite, we get the characteristics of Jambi flora fossils that are 290 to 300 million years old which are characterized by the presence of fusulinids in the rock Mengkarang formations.This name signifies the Merangin river that just into the plains on its banks, which is bounded by rock walls, in the form of fractured Granodiorite cliffs, columnar joints, sedimentary rocks stratified, and the beauty of tree trunk on the banks of the river. And there is a fossilized Araucarioxylon mass tree trunk, with roots that also appear to have been petrified, a trunk as high as ± 2.40 m from the roots, and a diameter of ± 1.60 m. And not far from this tree there is a collection of fossil shells and fusulin which are clearly embedded in the layer of gray sedimentary rock. 

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