Bükkábrány is a village in
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
. In its open cast
coal mine
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
palaeontologist found sixteen preserved trunks of
cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old. See
8 million years old cypresses.
External links
Street map
Ancient forest report
Populated places in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County
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