[Dan(9698)]

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.

[AZLiberty]

300 million year old rainforest in Illinois? It can’t be. I thought Al Gore invented global warming in January 2001.

[Reagan is King]

[swmobuffalo]

Pretty cool, wish there were more pictures!

[SkyDancer]

Why is every forest now called a “Rain Forest”? ... isn’t the definition of a rain forest one where the humidity is so high that it actually rains moisture? The Amazon has a true rain forest .... our back woods here in Washington do not ... but the Hoe Forest is designated a “Rain Forest” ..... in this light there are no more plain forests but all are rain forests ..... PC gone amok yet again ....

[NormsRevenge]

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)

[Silly]

I wonder, if someone had found an ancient coal mine in a rain forest, would it have made the news?

[gcruse]

I refuse to call jungles rain forests.

[VeniVidiVici]

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!

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Researchers Probe Fossilized Rain Forest
Townhall | 4/23/07
Posted on 04/23/2007 11:44:05 PM EDT by Valin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822425/posts

[SunkenCiv]

...thanks to tidal rhythms, the mud deposited on top of this forest is layered, so years can be counted as with the rings of a tree. The 15 feet of sediment that blankets the fossils was laid down in four months -- instantaneously in geologic time. ["Fossils of a 300-Million-Year-Old Forest Found", Discover Magazine, Michael Abrams]

[SunkenCiv]

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[ROCKLOBSTER]

Alright!

What the hey was a forest doing down in a coal mine anyway?

How'd they get the rain down there, and never mind that, how the hell did they get the sun to shine down there?

Somehow, it just doesn't all add up.

[Waco]

I remember reading one time that a roadbed was found within a coal seam in Ill.