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World's earliest fossilised forest discovered in Minehead, Somerset, England
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World's earliest fossilised forest discovered in Minehead, Somerset By Greg Brosnan, BBC News Climate and Science, March 6, 2024 Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils By Sarah Collins, University of Cambridge, March 7, 2024 THe open access paper is: Davies, N.S., McMahon, W.J. and Berry, C.M., 2024. Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon, SW England. Journal of the Geological Society, pp.jgs2023-204. Yours, Paul H.- 2 replies
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A 22-million-year-old petrified mangrove forest found in the Panama Canal
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A 22-million-year-old petrified mangrove forest found in the Panama Canal by Bob Yirka , PhysOrg The paywalled paper is: Martínez, C., Pérez-Lara, D.K., Avellaneda-Jiménez, D.S., Caballero-Rodríguez, D., Rodríguez-Reyes, O., Crowley, J.L. and Jaramillo, C., 2023. An early Miocene (Aquitanian) mangrove fossil forest buried by a volcanic lahar at Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p.112006. Yours, Paul H.-
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New Zealand's 180-million-year-old forest BBC News Travel, South Island, New Zealand By Marian McGuinness, November 12, 2021 Curio Bay/Porpoise Bay Some papers are: Pole, M., 2001. Repeated flood events and fossil forests at Curio Bay (Middle Jurassic), New Zealand. Sedimentary Geology, 144(3-4), pp.223-242. More papers by Dr. Mike Pole Pole, M., 2009. Vegetation and climate of the New Zealand Jurassic. GFF, 131(1-2), pp.105-111. PDF of Pole (2009) Thorn, V.C., 1999. Enigmatic High Palaeolatitude Forests of Gondwanaland-a Case Study from the New Zealand Jurassic. PhD Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Yours, Paul H.
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Dinosaur forests mapped by Adele Rackley http://planetearth.n...ry.aspx?id=1170 Earth was Stifling Hot During Peak Age of Dinosaurs The Daily Galaxy, February 28, 2012, http://www.dailygala...inosaurs-1.html Dinosaurs roamed among pine trees in the Arctic 100 million years ago, scientists reveal, Mail Online February 28, 2012, ( has colored maps ) http://www.dailymail...sts-reveal.html The paper is: Peralta-Medina, E., and H. J. Falcon-Lang, 2012, Cretaceous forest composition and productivity inferred from a global fossil wood database. Geology. vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 219-222. http://geology.gsapu.../3/219.abstract PDF file at: http://royalholloway.academia.edu/EmilianoPeraltaMedina/Papers/1473624/Cretaceous_forest_composition_and_productivity_inferred_from_a_global_fossil_wood_database Best wishes, Paul H.
