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Polar fossil forests
Author(s) -
FRANCIS JANE E.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2451.1990.tb00714.x
Subject(s) - polar , arctic , the arctic , latitude , geology , physical geography , sunlight , paleoclimatology , fossil record , paleontology , earth science , climate change , astrobiology , oceanography , geography , biology , astronomy , geodesy , physics
In the Arctic and Antarctic there are spectacular fossil forests. They are true ‘polar forests’ because not only are they found as fossils in high latitudes today‐they actually grew in the polar regions. They provide important evidence that the climate of the Earth was once much warmer, and that the trees must have been adapted to the strange polar light‐regime of winter darkness and continuous summer sunlight.