Dawdon's Fossil Tree

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Dawdon Colliery (1907-1991)


Dawdon


Nose's Point and Blast Beach, Dawdon

  • Description

    "This fossil remnant of a tree has been installed on the open ground above Nose's Point, . The plaque reads "The fossil here is likely to be a remnant of Sigillaria or club moss, a species that survives today as a short ground-hugging plant. But in the Carboniferous swamps and forests, around 320 million years ago, it could grow up to 30 metres high. This fossilised remnant is a section of the main trunk and would have quite a large specimen. It was discovered in Dawdon Colliery."" Photo by Oliver Dixon, 2016.

  • Owner

    Oliver Dixon

  • Source

    Geograph (Geograph)

  • License

    What does this mean? Creative Commons License

  • Further information

    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4822549
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 7 years, 3 months ago
    Viewed: 1521 times
    Picture Taken: 2016-02-10

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