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agatemaggot
Cave Dweller
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forest
Aug 1, 2007 23:06:20 GMT -5
Post by agatemaggot on Aug 1, 2007 23:06:20 GMT -5
A 9 ft. Millipede ? That IS one BIG A$$ BUG !!!!!!!! I read a similar article but all it referred to were the trees. It would be great if one of the honchos on that dig site would take time from his busy schedule and make a little more information public. Maybe post a pic. or two of their daily finds. Do you have any idea if there is anything like that going on
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lastl98
spending too much on rocks
Member since February 2007
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forest
Aug 2, 2007 0:37:21 GMT -5
Post by lastl98 on Aug 2, 2007 0:37:21 GMT -5
Four years ago? WOW! Who is doing the dig? Surely they are documenting all of this? This sounds like a similar thread that I read where a landowner, who was also a heavy machine operator, uncovered a large undisturbed petrified forest while building or extending his driveway? The most unusual thing about his find was that the trees were still STANDING! As if a lake had suddenly formed just before a lava flow & encased everything as it was just waiting for someone to come along millions of years later. Last PS. This week Dave, I've almost got it all together now.
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forest
Aug 2, 2007 9:07:28 GMT -5
Post by BuiltonRock on Aug 2, 2007 9:07:28 GMT -5
Do you have any links Dave? I just found one little blurb.
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forest
Aug 2, 2007 9:23:24 GMT -5
Post by joe on Aug 2, 2007 9:23:24 GMT -5
Well put on your official lookin' overalls, buy a cheap badge and cap at the five and dime store and get down there!!!
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181lizard
Cave Dweller
Still lurking :)
Member since December 2005
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forest
Aug 2, 2007 14:59:34 GMT -5
Post by 181lizard on Aug 2, 2007 14:59:34 GMT -5
Dave...where can we go to see/read?
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forest
Aug 2, 2007 16:30:11 GMT -5
Post by Lady B on Aug 2, 2007 16:30:11 GMT -5
I remember reading about this back in May before I joined RTH. I just tried searching Google and Yahoo and found some info. I checked some of the links printed in this article--they are either dead ends or not the info suggested; so now I am doubly frustrated because I really want to find out more about this discovery. Here's what was posted: _____________ Best Answer - Chosen By Voters I am guessing you are asking about the Pennsylvanian age rainforest reported recently in several science sections such as Yahoo News. news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/2007... This well relatively well-preserved forest covers about 1000 hectares ( a hectare is 2.741 acres or 10,000 square meters). It is located just above the Herrin No. 6 coal stratigraphically, making it around 300 million years old. The preserved forest is located in the Vermillion Grove and Riola Mines south of Danville, Illinois in Vermillion County, Illinois. the mines are operated by Black Beauty Coal Co., a subsidiary of Peabody Coal, that is headquartered in Indiana, thus resulting in some reports that the mines were in Indiana. An abstract of the original article reported by the news writers is here www.gsajournals.org/perlserv/?req... The forest is not composed of trees that you might visualize as trees, but instead is mostly populated by tree ferns and lycopsids. They reported incomplete tree fern trunks of up to 4 m long and lycopsid trunks of more than 33 meters long. Here are some representations of lycopsids: www.devoniantimes.org/who/pages/l... www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/lyco... Here is some information about tree ferns from the Pennsylvanian: www.devoniantimes.org/who/pages/l... The area studied was near the equator at the time the forest was living, and consisted of a tropical forest environment near a tidal estuary. Fault movement and probable sea-level rise gradually changed the environment of this forest over the last few decades from a peat mire or bog to a tidal channel and estuary covered with muds and silty soils. Apparently a large earthquake event may have induced subsidence causing the forest to be buried quickly in muds and creating the conditions that led to its preservation. Source(s): DiMichele, W.A, H. Falcon-Lang, W.J. Nelson, S.D. Elrick, and P.R.Ames 2007, Ecological gradients within a Pennsylvanian mire forest, Geology, v 35 no 5 p 415-418, (May 2007) __________________________ Lady B
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forest
Aug 2, 2007 16:37:35 GMT -5
Post by Lady B on Aug 2, 2007 16:37:35 GMT -5
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snowdog
fully equipped rock polisher
RIP David Fildes, aka: snowdog
Member since January 2005
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forest
Aug 2, 2007 18:05:42 GMT -5
Post by snowdog on Aug 2, 2007 18:05:42 GMT -5
been trying to do some more searching myself --- and now I'm " corn-fused" -------- I've found 40 square miles , 15 square miles, and @ 4 --------- it may be in my backyard if I could get down 300 ft.! ;D------- here is a bit from nat. geo --http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070424-forest-fossils.html---- otherwise I just did a search for " petified wood in Il. " or "pet. forest in Danville Il." --- should give several different leads ------------
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forest
Aug 3, 2007 10:36:28 GMT -5
Post by BuiltonRock on Aug 3, 2007 10:36:28 GMT -5
I bet Jimmy Hoffa is petrified in there too! john
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