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The world's oldest and vastest forest found in New York 386 million years old

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    The rise of ancient forest reduced the levels of CO2 worldwide, and changed the climate. The indirect evidence for the rise of forests can be found in the change of climate indicated in the sediments.


    Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50840134



    World's oldest fossil trees uncovered in New York
    By Laura Foster
    Science Reporter
    19 December 2019

    The earliest fossilised trees, dating back 386 million years, have been found at an abandoned quarry in New York.

    Scientists believe the forest they belonged to was so vast it originally stretched beyond Pennsylvania.

    This discovery in Cairo, New York, is thought to be two or three million years older than what was previously the world's oldest forest at Gilboa, also in New York State.

    The findings throw new light on the evolution of trees.

    What did they find?

    It was more than 10 years ago that experts from Cardiff University, UK, Binghamton University in the US and the New York State Museum began looking at the site in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in the Hudson Valley.

    Since then, they have mapped over 3,000 square metres of the forest and concluded the forest was home to at least two types of trees: Cladoxylopsids and Archaeopteris.

    A third type of tree has yet to be identified.

    Palaeobotanist Dr Chris Berry from Cardiff University is a co-author of the study in the journal Current Biology.

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    I thought that the stacked forests at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs were the oldest at roughly 310 myo followed by the one found in the Illinois coal mine (300 myo). Learn something new every day.

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      It is interesting that the climate, atmosphere content and the oceans change and in ways determined in response to the evolution of life. This is only one example.
      Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
      Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
      But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

      go with the flow the river knows . . .

      Frank

      I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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