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Determination Of Fossil Woods (Part Iii-The Elms), George F. Beck Mar 1937

Determination Of Fossil Woods (Part Iii-The Elms), George F. Beck

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The elms are among the best known and most beloved trees found native to America. Like the redwood they belong to that large group of trees which in preglacial days grew generally over the northern hemisphere.


Determination Of Fossil Woods (Part Ii-The Oaks), George F. Beck Feb 1937

Determination Of Fossil Woods (Part Ii-The Oaks), George F. Beck

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The oaks, unlike the sacred ginkgo or temple tree, are thriving throughout the northern hemisphere today. Not only is the oak an entirely familiar and abundant element in existing landscapes, but its history goes back into the centuries and ages. Its leaves and woods are generously represented in fossil forests as far back as the early Tertiary and closely allied forms penetrate as far back as the Cretaceous.


Wood Occurring In The Ginkgo And Associated Petrified Forest (No. 1-The Gingko), George F. Beck Dec 1936

Wood Occurring In The Ginkgo And Associated Petrified Forest (No. 1-The Gingko), George F. Beck

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The most interesting single fossil tree, but at the same time the most difficult to determine in the Ginkgo Petrified Forest (Washington), is the tree after which this unusual petrified forest takes its name. The ginkgo is not only the world's oldest and most remarkable living tree, but it has long been regarded as holding the most striking fossil record of any living thing, plant or animal.


Grinding Thin Sections For Determining Petrified Woods, George F. Beck Dec 1936

Grinding Thin Sections For Determining Petrified Woods, George F. Beck

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The collector and student of petrified woods cannot long be satisfied to merely place these colorful and interesting specimens in the cabinet with the mere label, "petrified wood." Frequently determining the types of wood which once thrived in a given area is of importance to give a clue to climatic conditions of past geological ages. The collector should at least be qualified to recognize the more common woods and distinguish one family of trees from another.


Fossil Bearing Basalts (More Particularly The Yakima Basalt Of Central Washington), George F. Beck Nov 1935

Fossil Bearing Basalts (More Particularly The Yakima Basalt Of Central Washington), George F. Beck

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Such an overwhelming majority of the floral and faunal remains of the earth's crust have been yielded by rocks of sedimentary origin that generalized statements concerning the occurrence of fossils often neglect their more rare appearance in metamorphic and igneous rocks. In fact there is the temptation, after volcanic tuffs have been excluded as more or less sedimentary, to venture the positive assertion that by their very character igneous rocks are incapable of recording the presence of the life which may have existed at the time of their extrusion. As a result, most that has been written concerning fossil floras …


Arrowhead Making In The Ginkgo Petrified Forest, George F. Beck Dec 1934

Arrowhead Making In The Ginkgo Petrified Forest, George F. Beck

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In a sense we must give the Indians credit for being the original discoverers of these fossil forests of Central Washington. Not that I have been able to run down any legends or traditions regarding fossil logs or any certainty that the Indians recognized them as trees in stone. My opinion is that they could not have failed to recognize them as trees. Be that as it may, they long ago took recognition of the fact that certain logs were to be prized as the source of flint for their arrow-heads.