Geo Beck | Earth's Earliest Trees in Upstate New York @Geobeck | Uploaded December 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In this video I take you along on a trip with me to visit some of Earth's earliest trees in upstate New York! I went to Gilboa, NY located in the Catskill Mountains to take a look at some fossils of our planet's earliest trees. I teach a little geologic background first about why the Catskills aren't always considered 'real mountains' and other discoveries about these oldest trees in the last several years.
As always, thanks for watching, and if you enjoyed this feel free to check out some more of my geology related videos!
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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:20 Catskill Mountains Background
3:53 At Gilboa Fossils
4:59 Gilboa Dam History
5:55 Finally, the fossils!
6:50 Some really cool historical photos
7:40 Eospermatopteris... Say that 5 times fast
8:48 They put the CARBON in Carboniferous
9:37 This is so cool
9:59 Some shell fossils!
10:22 I made a friend
10:52 Roadside fossils stop
11:13 NYS FIRST Woman State Palentologist
11:43 Family Reunion
13:12 Wait wait wait, another discovery?
16:47 Why should we care?
17:46 Modern day trees comparison
18:23 Ginkgo Biloba - A Living Fossil
19:31 Now you know more than you did 20 minutes ago
If you'd like to learn more about the Gilboa Fossils or the things I mentioned in this video, take a look at the following resources:
researchgate.net/publication/262510642_Reexamination_of_Eospermatopteris_eriana_Dawson_Goldring_from_the_upper_Middle_Devonian_Givetian_Flora_at_Gilboa_New_York
nature.com/articles/483041a
theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/15/theres-more-than-one-way-to-build-a-tree-374m-year-old-fossils-reveal
sci-news.com/paleontology/cairo-fossil-forest-07933.html
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/385-million-year-old-fossils-reveal-worlds-oldest-forest-had-modern-tree-roots-180973810
Image Credits:
'Tree Stump Fossils in Gilboa' NYC Water, Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nycwater/29380201793/in/album-72157647118511120
'Riverside Quarry' NYC Water, Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nycwater/29380202673/in/album-72157647118511120
'Tree Stump Fossil in Gilboa' NYC Water, Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nycwater/29923671681/in/album-72157647118511120
Winnifred Goldring Portraits, Museum of the Earth: museumoftheearth.org/daring-to-dig/bio/goldring
'Tree Stump Fossil in Gilboa' (2), NYC Water, Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nycwater/29923673071/in/album-72157647118511120
In this video I take you along on a trip with me to visit some of Earth's earliest trees in upstate New York! I went to Gilboa, NY located in the Catskill Mountains to take a look at some fossils of our planet's earliest trees. I teach a little geologic background first about why the Catskills aren't always considered 'real mountains' and other discoveries about these oldest trees in the last several years.
As always, thanks for watching, and if you enjoyed this feel free to check out some more of my geology related videos!
subscribe for more vids ➭ bit.ly/geobeck
what gives crystals their shapes?: bit.ly/crystalmorphology
talking about soil while painting with it: bit.ly/paintingwithsoil
everything you need to know about geodes: bit.ly/howaregeodesformed
hunting for Herkimer Diamonds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Vx0...
TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:20 Catskill Mountains Background
3:53 At Gilboa Fossils
4:59 Gilboa Dam History
5:55 Finally, the fossils!
6:50 Some really cool historical photos
7:40 Eospermatopteris... Say that 5 times fast
8:48 They put the CARBON in Carboniferous
9:37 This is so cool
9:59 Some shell fossils!
10:22 I made a friend
10:52 Roadside fossils stop
11:13 NYS FIRST Woman State Palentologist
11:43 Family Reunion
13:12 Wait wait wait, another discovery?
16:47 Why should we care?
17:46 Modern day trees comparison
18:23 Ginkgo Biloba - A Living Fossil
19:31 Now you know more than you did 20 minutes ago
If you'd like to learn more about the Gilboa Fossils or the things I mentioned in this video, take a look at the following resources:
researchgate.net/publication/262510642_Reexamination_of_Eospermatopteris_eriana_Dawson_Goldring_from_the_upper_Middle_Devonian_Givetian_Flora_at_Gilboa_New_York
nature.com/articles/483041a
theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/15/theres-more-than-one-way-to-build-a-tree-374m-year-old-fossils-reveal
sci-news.com/paleontology/cairo-fossil-forest-07933.html
smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/385-million-year-old-fossils-reveal-worlds-oldest-forest-had-modern-tree-roots-180973810
Image Credits:
'Tree Stump Fossils in Gilboa' NYC Water, Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nycwater/29380201793/in/album-72157647118511120
'Riverside Quarry' NYC Water, Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nycwater/29380202673/in/album-72157647118511120
'Tree Stump Fossil in Gilboa' NYC Water, Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nycwater/29923671681/in/album-72157647118511120
Winnifred Goldring Portraits, Museum of the Earth: museumoftheearth.org/daring-to-dig/bio/goldring
'Tree Stump Fossil in Gilboa' (2), NYC Water, Flickr: flickr.com/photos/nycwater/29923673071/in/album-72157647118511120
