"Does This Fossil Reveal a Jurassic Tropical Freeze?" Topic
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| Tango01 | 13 Mar 2020 10:20 p.m. PST |
"On view for over a century, a fossil slab may display evidence of tropical freezing during the Jurassic, but scientists never noticed it—until one finally did. Some colleagues are not convinced. "Hiding in plain sight for over 123 years is physical evidence that the tropics froze for brief periods of time 200 million years ago, at the beginning of the age of dinosaurs," according to Paul Olsen, a paleontologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. Addressing reporters at AGU's Fall Meeting last December, Olsen described his utter surprise when he looked at a fossil that he had seen at least 40 times since the 1970s and realized it revealed more than he had ever previously noticed. In fact, the fossil in question has been on public display since 1896 and has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors, including hundreds of scientists, first at Wesleyan University and more recently at Dinosaur State Park, both in Connecticut…"
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| JMcCarroll | 16 Mar 2020 3:03 p.m. PST |
Global freezing, global warming, can't they make their mind up? Yes I know. |
| Tango01 | 22 Mar 2020 4:39 p.m. PST |
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