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Tertiary Coniferous Woods Of Western North America, George F. Beck
Tertiary Coniferous Woods Of Western North America, George F. Beck
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Almost four decades have elapsed since Platen (1908), the German paleobotanist, published his report upon the fossil woods of the western United States. Since then no over-all treatment of these materials has been attempted. although Platen overlooked the Pacific Northwest with its abundance of Tertiary petrified woods. The purpose of this paper is to bring knowledge of the western coniferous woods of the Tertiary up to date. In this effort the writer recognizes that much of this information has been accumulated incidentally in the study of the Russell Petrified Forest series of central Washington, and that it is not as …
Some Pleistocene Mammalian Inhabitants Of Minnesota, Clinton R. Stauffer
Some Pleistocene Mammalian Inhabitants Of Minnesota, Clinton R. Stauffer
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
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Nyssa Woods Of The Pacific-Northwest Tertiary, George F. Beck
Nyssa Woods Of The Pacific-Northwest Tertiary, George F. Beck
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The nyssa gums are one of the modern genera of trees most certainly present among the petrified woods and forests of the Pacific Northwest. Almost every collection from the mid-Tertiary of this region contains a few specimens of typical tupelo or sour gum. These are fine-grained woods which to the unaided eye may be mistaken for conifers.