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1. LIVING FOSSIL FOREST STARTS as field
assistant John Vuleta plants the two latest gingko
plants. This forest, which is being planted on
our fossil Log Jam excavation site in Gympie Australia,
consists of living fossil trees which match the
specimens we are digging out of our several sites
in the Gympie rocks. The first high school will
visit this site in mid July - and will be first
to see the evidence that plants have produced
their own kind like God said they would in Genesis.
Thanks to those of you who've kick started this
forest project with your generous donations. The
remaining photos come from our fossil dig in June
at this site. |
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would be grateful of your financial and prayerful
help with these projects. To donate click HERE.
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WILLING
HELPERS Keith Berlin and Paul Newell
excavate the newest and the biggest log so far
found on our site. To date, we have excavated
some three metres of this log, and we are still
going. See below for pics from the world famous
Arizona fossil "forest",USA, so you
can compare quality of their logs and our logs.
This Gympie site is truly a fabulous find.
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UNIVERSITY
PhD MINING STUDENT Bill Hitchcock assists
several others in excavating new material at the
site. Recent very heavy rains in Australia have
re-covered some of our logs, and the drainage
trench at the top right of the picture saved most
of the site. With your financial assistance we'll
be putting in several more diversion trenches.
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A SLURRY OF SMASHED, CRUSHED LOGS begins
to emerge from the afternoon's excavation. Arrows
point to separate logs, all of which have been
broken. Again, it reinforces the fact that this
is not a place where the fossils are found in
the location they grew. This is a forest that
grew elsewhere and was provably smashed and floated
here in a massive flood of water and dumped and
buried quickly.
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The log shown above was actually split
before it was buried and petrified. It's
almost as if it's a fencepost, done in the old
style with log splitters, and then turned to stone.
You can see also the size of the boulders beside
it, which indicates the violence of the water
that was washing this material in and burying
it rapidly.
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compare our Aussie site to world famous Arizona
fossil forest |
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Interestingly enough, the material at the Arizona
fossil "forest" is very similar
to our material at Gympie. Both sites consist
of a majority of Southern Conifer logs (Araucauria)
which have been petrified, and neither of them
is a buried fossil forest. As you can see, they
possess almost no branches or roots. They are
both flood deposits and Log Jams on a huge scale.
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The only difference between the Arizona deposit
and ours is it's labelled Triassic,
and ours is labelled Jurassic.
These words of course were invented largely before
the days of Charles Darwin, and simply refer to
Triassic - three colours; and Jurassic - as in
the Jura mountains.
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As you can see, natural erosion
has exposed the Arizona logs, but in Australia
we have to do the hard work of excavation ourselves
at Gympie.
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Quality specimens from Arizona are amongst
our collected materials that you'll be
able to see when we finalise our Gympie displays.
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Latest
find is petrified pine log in limestone rich
with ferns. |
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This site in Gympie, as well as in Arizona is a
marvellous evidence of: (a) Plants producing their
own kind and (b) The environment of the world diminishing
in quality, as Southern Conifers now only grow in
the Southern Hemisphere, whereas they were once
worldwide, and a great place to see what a flood
deposit is really like and imagine the Chaos of
Noah's World wide flood. |
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Testing with hydrochloric acid of
the grey rock containing both the log and the fern
revealed the bubbling carbon dioxide which is a
real indicator of limestone or calcium carbonate.
More information on these fabulous ferns in limestone
click HERE. |
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A
cross section of the log reveals it has been squashed
before being turned to stone so it was (a) buried
rapidly (b) buried under sediment layers quickly
and (c) shows a flood type mix of land plants in
limestone. Limestone is usually regarded as having
formed slowly in shallow tropical seas, not in violent
flood conditions. |
See
great plans for this project that you can help
with click HERE
To
return to Jurassic Ark Project click HERE |
