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Efforts are ramping up to have this region added to the Canadian geopark family. The UNESCO folks just finished their visit. Let's wish them all the success! Possible Nova Scotian United Nations geopark a hidden gem - Keenan
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I found a few of these at Joggins fossil cliffs on Nova Scotia. I wonder if it's a nut from the Coal Age tree in the forest fossilized within the cliffs?
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What is the reason behind Mt. Baldy sand dune's mysterious holes? By Karen Graham, Digital journal, Jun 27, 2016 http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/what-is-the-reason-behind-mt-baldy-sand-dune-s-mysterious-holes/article/468694 Research continues as Indiana’s Mount Baldy reveals secrets of dune dynamics, Indiana University, June 28, 2016 http://viewpoints.iu.edu/policy-briefings/2016/06/28/research-continues-as-indianas-mount-baldy-reveals-secrets-of-dune-dynamics/ The Paper is: Argyilan, E. P., P. G. Avis, M. P.S. Krekeler, and C. C. Morris, 2015, The origin of collapse features appearing in a migrating parabolic dune along the southern coast of Lake Michigan. Aeolian Research. Volume 19, Part A, pp. 137–149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2015.09.008 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875963715000890 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283579976_The_origin_of_collapse_features_appearing_in_a_migrating_parabolic_dune_along_the_southern_coast_of_Lake_Michigan https://www.journals.elsevier.com/aeolian-research/open-access-articles Argyilan, E. P., M. P.S. Krekeler, P. G. Avis, T. A. Thompson, G. W. Monaghan, and C. C. Morris, 2016, The formation of dune decomposition chimneys in a migrating coastal dune, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. v. 48, no. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2016NC-275637 https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016NC/webprogram/Paper275637.html https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2016NC/webprogram/Session39355.html A similar mechanism involving tree molds trapped Carboniferous vertebrates in the coal forests of Joggins, Nova Scotia. Go see: Dawson, J.W., 1896, Additional report on erect trees containing animal remains in the Coal- Formation of Nova Scotia. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 59, 362-366. Ferguson, L., 1988b. The "fossil cliffs" at Joggins, Nova Scotia: a Canadian case study. Special Papers in Palaeontology. vol. 40, pp. 191-200. Go see Figure 3. Ferguson, L., 1975, The Joggins Section. In I. McK. Harris (editor), Ancient Sediments of Nova Scotia. Guidebook for the 1975 field trip, Eastern Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, 111-118 p. or Maritime Sediments. vol. 11, 69. Yours, Paul H.
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Another amateur find. The eyes of the untrained fossil collector can still help Science. Cheers to the astute finder. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/joggins-mount-allison-paleontology-fossils-1.3780594
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Tiny Carboniferous Steps by Brian Switek Wired News, September 6, 2012 http://www.wired.com...niferous-steps/ the paper is: Stimson, M., S. G. Lucas, and G. Melanson, 2012, The Smallest Known Tetrapod Footprints: Batrachichnus salamandroides from the Carboniferous of Joggins, Nova Scotia, Canada, Ichnos: An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 127-140. http://www.tandfonli...940.2012.685206 http://www.tandfonli...=gich20#preview Best wishes, Paul H.
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