Posted on 04/23/2007 8:11:31 PM PDT by A. Pole
My family had a coal mine up until 1960.
There were leaves on the rocks on the ceiling.
I saw one piece of coal that had a knot in it.
300 million year old rainforest in Illinois? It can’t be. I thought Al Gore invented global warming in January 2001.
Neat! Thanks for sharing.
ILLINOIS USED to be a RAIN FOREST.....don’t tell GoreBull!
Pretty cool, wish there were more pictures!
Bushs Fault!
In this photo released Monday, April 23, 2007 by the Illinois State Geological Survey shows a fossil, part of a fossilized rain forest discovered in coal mines in Vermilion County in east central Illinois. Geologists say the area dates to the Pennsylvania Age, 300 million years ago. Researchers are probing the fossilized area which covers about 15 square miles, all more than 200 feet below ground, and is probably the largest intact rain forest from that period ever studied. (AP Photo/Illinois State Geological Survey)
Which was controlled by a prehistoric Daley family.
A knot? Tell me about it.
i wonder if that’s why the United States is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
Why? Simple we know it aggravates you, we had a meeting awhile ago and decided to do this. Everyone is in on it..friends..family...everyone, that is except John McCain but he’s just being a maverick.
For what it’s worth it was Jacques Chirac’s idea. So you can blame him...not that he cares.
I wonder, if someone had found an ancient coal mine in a rain forest, would it have made the news?
I refuse to call jungles rain forests.
Very cool article.
Here is a link off of the same article (Yahoo).
http://www.livescience.com/environment/070419_earth_timeline.html
Read it and you’ll see we are quite doomed due to GLOBAL WARMING!
Probably occurred around 4000 years ago during the flood of Noah. But anything important in make believe science must be at least 300-600 million years old to give it the illusional/delusional sugar coating it needs in order to fit into the completely and utter unprovable theory of evolution. First rule of junk science, make it so old as to be completely impossible to prove or disprove.
Why does everything have to be millions of years. The Mt. St Helens eruption changed the landscape in a day. Lakes were removed, rivers re routed and canyons were dug overnight.
Have you seen the iron hammer that was dug from a coal mine that was supposed to be millions of years old? How about the fossilized "foot" still in a cowboy boot manufactured in the 1950's that was dug out of a stream bed in Texas?
When people buy into this stuff, it just shows a lack of common sense. How many armadillo's remain on the side of the road long enough to be fossilized? It must happen quick to cut off the oxygen, and most likely the covering up is what killed them. If you find an animal that was obviously eaten, then the remains would have had to be covered within a short while after. Also, the covering would have to be several feet thick or made of something like clay or molten rock. Otherwise the organic material would still decay over a relatively short time.
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