Florida Museum of Natural History: Fingerprints of Ancient Forests Offer Rare Look at Florida 16 Million Years Ago
September 18, 2019
September 18, 2019
GAINESVILLE, Florida, Sept. 18 -- The Florida Museum of Natural History issued the following research news:
Along a bend in the Apalachicola River, 50 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida's largest slice of visible bedrock towers more than 100 feet above the surrounding banks. With a rich fossil record of plants, Alum Bluff offers a glimpse of Florida's forests 13 to 16 million years ago, and paleobotanists have been studying the site for more than a century.
Now a new st . . .
Along a bend in the Apalachicola River, 50 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida's largest slice of visible bedrock towers more than 100 feet above the surrounding banks. With a rich fossil record of plants, Alum Bluff offers a glimpse of Florida's forests 13 to 16 million years ago, and paleobotanists have been studying the site for more than a century.
Now a new st . . .