- The Fossil Forest - East of Lulworth Cove, Dorset
Virtual field trip to the Fossil Forest, a classic geological locality with the remains and moulds of late Jurassic or early Cretaceous coniferous trees of Cypress or Juniper type rooted in a calcareous palaeosol, the Great Dirt Bed.
www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/forest.htm
- Petrified Forest National Park@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Parks_and_Public_Lands/Petrified_Forest_National_Park
- A History of Palaeozoic Forests
Hyperlinked version of Hans Kerp's article that will take readers on a virtual palaeobotany tour around the world.
www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/Palaeo/Palbot/ewald.html
- A 300 Million Year Old Pennsylvanian Age Mire Forest
Illinois State Geological Survey study of the plant ecology of a Pennsylvanian age forest that shows subtle ecologic changes in the make-up of the forest which were present 300 million years ago.
www.isgs.uiuc.edu/research/coal/fossil-forest/fossil-forest.shtml
- Geobiology of Polar Latitude Eocene Forests Project
University of Pennsylvania research at the Geodetic Hills Fossil Forest site, Nunavut Territory, Canada.
www.sas.upenn.edu/earth/arctic
- Fossil Forests of the Yellowstone National Park
Early publication describing Yellowstone's fossil forest, where most of the trees were entombed in the upright position, just as they stood when they were living
www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/yell/knowlton/index.htm
- Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument - U.S. National Park Service
See petrified redwood stumps up to 14 feet wide and thousands of detailed fossils of insects and plants that reveal the story of a very different, prehistoric Colorado.
www.nps.gov/flfo
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