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This episode looks at those annoying facts of the geological world known as polystrate trees.
References:
The Creationist Argument
icr.org/article/classic-polystrate-fossil
creation.com/polystrate-fossils-evidence-for-a-young-earth
apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=213
Pennsylvanian 'fossil forests' in growth position (T° assemblages): origin, taphonomic bias and palaeoecological insights
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/15971/paleo_2011_DiMichele_Falcon_Lang_T0Assemblages_JGeolSoc.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Role of evaporite withdrawal in the preservation of a unique coal-bearing succession: Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia
geology.gsapubs.org/content/33/5/337.abstract
Transpression and transtension along a continental transform fault:Minas Fault Zone, Nova Scotia
dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/53771/AGS%2333_FieldTripB7MinasFaultZone.pdf?sequence=1
Erect Forests Are Evidence for Coseismic Base-level Changes in Pennsylvanian Cyclothems of the Black Warrior Basin, U.S.A.
http://personal.colby.edu/~ragastal/RAG_reprints/RAG2004d.pdf
Early Mississippian lycopsid forests in a delta-plain setting at Norton, near Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada
jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/161/6/969.abstract
Regenerative growth in fossil horsetails following burial by alluvium
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10292389209380429#.VO4VqvnF9rE
Burial of trees by eruptions of Mount St Helens, Washington:implications for the interpretation of fossil forests
journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=4481528
Buried Forests Could Provide Clues to Past
http://www.academia.edu/3161345/Buried_Forests_Could_Provide_Clues_to_Past_Louisiana_
A buried spruce forest provides evidence at the stand and landscape scale for the effects of environment on vegetation at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00432.x/abstract
Basic information of trees becoming polystrate in glacial areas:
museum.state.il.us/muslink/forest/htmls/how_bury.html
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/breaking/2000/forest.html
http://web2.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/chippewa.html qabalaHCTMRS04
This episode looks at those annoying facts of the geological world known as polystrate trees.
References:
The Creationist Argument
icr.org/article/classic-polystrate-fossil
creation.com/polystrate-fossils-evidence-for-a-young-earth
apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=9&article=213
Pennsylvanian 'fossil forests' in growth position (T° assemblages): origin, taphonomic bias and palaeoecological insights
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/15971/paleo_2011_DiMichele_Falcon_Lang_T0Assemblages_JGeolSoc.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Role of evaporite withdrawal in the preservation of a unique coal-bearing succession: Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia
geology.gsapubs.org/content/33/5/337.abstract
Transpression and transtension along a continental transform fault:Minas Fault Zone, Nova Scotia
dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/53771/AGS%2333_FieldTripB7MinasFaultZone.pdf?sequence=1
Erect Forests Are Evidence for Coseismic Base-level Changes in Pennsylvanian Cyclothems of the Black Warrior Basin, U.S.A.
http://personal.colby.edu/~ragastal/RAG_reprints/RAG2004d.pdf
Early Mississippian lycopsid forests in a delta-plain setting at Norton, near Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada
jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/161/6/969.abstract
Regenerative growth in fossil horsetails following burial by alluvium
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10292389209380429#.VO4VqvnF9rE
Burial of trees by eruptions of Mount St Helens, Washington:implications for the interpretation of fossil forests
journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=4481528
Buried Forests Could Provide Clues to Past
http://www.academia.edu/3161345/Buried_Forests_Could_Provide_Clues_to_Past_Louisiana_
A buried spruce forest provides evidence at the stand and landscape scale for the effects of environment on vegetation at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00432.x/abstract
Basic information of trees becoming polystrate in glacial areas:
museum.state.il.us/muslink/forest/htmls/how_bury.html
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/breaking/2000/forest.html
http://web2.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/chippewa.html qabalaHCTMRS04
