Polar fossil forests |
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| Authors: | JANE E. FRANCIS |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. |
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| Abstract: | In the Arctic and Antarctic there are spectacular fossil forests. They are true 'polar forests' because not only are they found as fossils in high latitudes today-they actually grew in the polar regions. They provide important evidence that the climate of the Earth was once much warmer, and that the trees must have been adapted to the strange polar light-regime of winter darkness and continuous summer sunlight. |
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