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

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Francis, Jane E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1988
• Subjects: Fossil forests; Palaeobotany; Palaeoclimatology; Photoperiodism; Tertiary period; Strathcona Fiord region; Nunavut; Arctic; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Eureka; Eureka Sound; Strathcona; Strathcona Fiord; Stump; Arctique*
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64792

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 sandstone...