A new set of polystrate forests, which are clearly**rooted** in soil fossils, called paleosols, have been found in road cuts in New Brunswick. These buried forests are different and older than the ones found in the Joggins cliffs of Nova Scotia.
Highway construction reveals ancient forest in New Brunswick.
by CBC News Online staff, October 24, 2004
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Norton home to country's oldest fossils
by Mac Trueman, Telegraph-Journal
/ Canada East, Canada, October 30, 2004
As published on page A1/A8 on October 30, 2004
Telegraph-Journal | TJ.news
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This discovery is described in:
Falcon-Lang, 2004, Early Mississippian lycopsid forests in
a delta-plain setting at Norton, near Sussex, New Brunswick,
Canada. Journal of the Geological Society of London.
vol. 161, no. 6, pp. 969-981.
"In this paper, nearly 700 in situ fossil trees
are described from 13 entisol or inceptisol
horizons in the mid-Tournaisian Albert Formation
(Horton Group) at Norton, near Sussex, New
Brunswick, Canada."
Best Regards,
Bill Birkeland
Houston, Texas
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