[ASA Vet]

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[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)

[Mad Dawg]

This is another obviously untrue story.
We know this because
IF there were once rain forests in Illinois, that means that Illinois was once much warmer, long, long ago. BUT there were no SUVs or Republicans long, long ago, and Bush was not President.
THEREFOR Illinois must have been cooler.
Q.E.D.

You gotta think these things through.

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[aruanan]

Standing on the wind-swept flatlands of southern Vermilion County, you might think you'd have to drive the 180 miles to Chicago's Field Museum to find the nearest fossilized tree trunk from the Pennsylvania Age,

No, you just drive from Chicago south to Peoria to find lots and lots of fossilized tree trunks in the vicinity of Kickapoo Creek.

[Petruchio]

This isn’t another article about Sheryl Crow’s butt, is it?

[SunkenCiv]

Ancient Rainforest Revealed in Coal Mine
Yahoo News | Mon Apr 23, 2007 | Jeanna Bryner
Posted on 04/23/2007 11:11:31 PM EDT by A. Pole
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822411/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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