The world's oldest fossilized forest is in Greene County. It needs saving.
Roger Hannigan Gilson, Times Union, Aug. 5, 2021
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The world’s oldest known fossil forest has been discovered in a quarry
in upper New York state By Kelly Murray, CNN, December 20, 2019
[www.cnn.com]

The open access paper is:

Stein, W.E., Berry, C.M., Morris, J.L., Hernick, L.V., Mannolini, F.,
Ver Straeten, C., Landing, E., Marshall, J.E., Wellman, C.H., Beerling,
D.J. and Leake, J.R., 2020. Mid-Devonian Archaeopteris roots signal
revolutionary change in earliest fossil forests. Current biology, 30(3),
pp.421-431.
[www.cell.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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