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Geotimes
July 2007
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Largest Fossilized Forest Found in Mine Deep within a maze of coal mines nestled along the eastern edge of Illinois, an ancient swamp forest is preserved at its time of death by a catastrophic flood 307 million years ago.   |
Geotimes
December 2003
Megan Sever |
La Nina controls Amazon floodplain A team of geologists linked the floodplain depositional layers to rapidly rising floods that occur during La Nina events in Bolivia. Rather than corresponding to annual flooding events in the rainforests, each large sediment influx corresponded to a La Nina event in the historic record. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Callan Bentley |
Summer Roadtrip: A Fossil Aquarium in Wyoming Fossil Butte National Monument is located in southwestern Wyoming, near the town of Kemmerer. It is the best place in the world to see freshwater lake fossils from 50 million years ago. |
High on Adventure
August 2008
Vicki Andersen |
John Day Fossil Beds Situated within the deeply eroded layers of volcanic ash, the John Day Formation is a well-preserved history of the flora and fauna that flourished during 40 million years of the Cenozoic Era. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Marine Critters Record Global Warming Layers of fossilized marine creatures have acted as an independent record of ocean temperature for millennia. Now, data from such layers is mirroring the same warming trend that instruments have shown -- suggesting humans are contributing to global warming. |
Geotimes
December 2003
Hatheway et al. |
Applied Geology in Service of the Public Welfare Engineering geologists play a crucial role in providing geological information to the public. |
