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This past weekend I was able to enjoy a rare February day of sunshine and temperatures above 50-degrees F (10-degrees C) in a vast expanse of public land owned by the U.S. government and in care of the Bureau of Land Management located in northwestern New Mexico. The area where I ventured is Upper Cretaceous though I am not sure of any period beyond that general age. Of the fossil related items I ran across, the first two photos show some petrified wood from a ground level stump. I noted some unfamiliar calcite patterns that were vaguely diamond shaped. The second photo shows an
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From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
One of Delaware's many mysteries is the petrified wood found near Odessa and Smyrna. The general consensus is that is cypress wood of some kind and it was buried under Pleistocene sediments. However, the origin of the wood and the age have yet to be figured out. Some say Miocene. Others say as old as Cretaceous. There are no other co-occurring fossils in the deposit to give any clues. The photo on the right was taken using a 395 nm UV lamp. -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood Family Cupressaceae Miocene New Castle County, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood Family Cupressaceae Miocene New Castle County, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood Family Cupressaceae Miocene New Castle County, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood Family Cupressaceae Miocene New Castle County, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood Family Cupressaceae Miocene New Castle County, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood Family Cupressaceae Miocene New Castle County, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood Family Cupressaceae Miocene New Castle County, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood Family Cupressaceae Miocene New Castle County, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood, viewed under short-wave ultraviolet light Miocene Odessa, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood, viewed under short-wave ultraviolet light Miocene Odessa, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood, viewed under short-wave ultraviolet light Miocene Odessa, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood, viewed under short-wave ultraviolet light Miocene Odessa, Delaware -
From the album: Fluorescent Petrified Wood
Cypress Wood, viewed under short-wave ultraviolet light Miocene Odessa, Delaware -
Long-Buried Ice Age, Alabama Forest Offers Climate Change Clues
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Scientists: Long-Buried Ice Age Forest Offers Climate Change Clues All Things Considered, Debbie Elliot, February 9, 2018 https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584116280/scientists-long-buried-ice-age-forest-offers-climate-change-clues https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/2018/02/21/587519897 Underwater forest in the Gulf acts as climate change time capsule Times-Picayune, NOLACom News, February, 12, 2018 http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/02/underwater_forest_in_the_gulf.html Alabama's 60,000-year-old underwater forest spills
