Gary, the Hell Creek formation is exposed in Mt, ND, and SD. My wife Lynn and I occasionally find it in buttes just west of Bismarck and to the southwest. Southwestern ND is famous for triceratops finds. One area to the west has been a good site for---Sequoia cones! We have picked up quite a number over the years as they wash out from gully washers. In the ND badlands fossil wood is very common, as are fossil trunks of sequoia still upright in place. A spot in Rooseveldt National Park is even named the petrified forest for the amount of fossil trees remaining. A lot of good stuff on the internet about these species-google Sequoia dakotensis. I will try to post a few photos of a recent trip to check for cones. Greg.
On Sep 10, 12:11 pm, Gary Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Florissant definitely looks like a neat place. Always wondered why > some trees such as the coastal redwoods got pushed to the West Coast > by the ice age and some trees such as bald cypress got pushed South. > Some, like dawn redwood, got pushed out of North America altogether. > I'm thinking all those species hung out together or fairly near each > other at one time. Any ideas on why who went where? > > Have any of you guys ever been to the Hell Creek Formation area? One > of my trips will eventually be to Montana, to a pay fossil dig so I > can satisfy my paleontologist fantasy. > > gs > > On Sep 8, 7:03 pm, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Don, > > > Florissant Fossil Bedshttp://www.nps.gov/flfo/index.htmisa neat place I > > always meant to visit. What is most important about the site is the > > presence of many insect and spider fossils that are usually not preserved > > in the rocks there. > > > This is the Big Stump. The most common kind of "petrified stump" found > > at Florissant Fossil Beds is the redwood Sequoia, such as "Big Stump" > > pictured at left. When you visit the park, look for two saw blades embedded > > into Big Stump; before Florissant was a National Monument, someone tried to > > cut Big Stump into pieces by using saws! Needless to say, the effort was > > for the most part, fruitless, and the saw blades are still stuck in Big > > Stump to this day! > > > This is a fossil set called the Trio. This "family circle" of fossilized > > stumps grew out of the single trunk of an older parent tree. The tree > > trunks are ancient clones, or genetically identical copes, of that parent > > tree. Modern coastal redwoods also reproduce by stump sprouting. If a > > redwood is toppled or burned, a ring of new trees often sprouts from burls > > (roots that stick out of the ground) around the trunk's base. In the > > coastal redwood forests, family groups are common. But this trio of stone > > stumps is unique in the world's fossil > > record!http://www.nps.gov/archive/flfo/online_museum/rocks-fossils/paleontol... > > > Ed Frank > > > "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The > > latter cannot understand > > it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but > > honestly and courageously > > uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his > > thought in clear form." Albert Einstein > > > BigStump.jpg > > 47KViewDownload > > > Trio.jpg > > 784KViewDownload- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
