ARCTIC A 50-Million-Year-Old Fossil Forest from Strathcona Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada: Evidence for a Warm Polar Climate

• Main Author: Jane E. Francis
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1988
• Subjects: Key words; fossil forest; Tertiary; Canadian Arctic; palaeoclimate; Ellesmere Island; petrified wood; Eureka Sound Group; Arctic; Canada; Eureka; Eureka Sound; Strathcona; Strathcona Fiord; Stump
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.583.5618; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic41-4-314.pdf

ABSTRACT. The remains of a fossil forest are buried within a sedimentary sequence of Eocene age (approximately 50 million years old) near Strathcona Fiord, Ellesmere Island. Large petrified tree stumps are preserved in their original growth positions in coals of the Eureka Sound Group, a sequence of...