Giant Redwoods Near North Pole

[dasa]

Source: Johns Hopkins University (http://www.jhu.edu/)

Posted 3/22/2002

 

Scientist Probes Fossil Oddity: Giant Redwoods Near North Pole

 

Located within the Arctic Circle north of mainland Canada, a full 8/9ths of the way from the equator to the North Pole, the uninhabited Canadian island is far enough north to make Iceland look like a great spot for a winter getaway, and today there’s not much to it beyond miles of rocks, ice, a few mosses, and many fossils.

 

The fossils tell of a different era, though, an odd time about 45 million years ago when Axel Heilberg, still as close to the North Pole as it is now, was covered in a forest of redwood-like trees known as metasequoias.

 

Jahren and colleague Leo Sternberg of the University of Miami uncovered evidence that the Axel Heilberg’s forests probably received equatorial water and warmth from a prehistoric weather pattern unlike anything in existence today.

 

Through a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Jahren’s research group has made three summer visits to Axel Heilberg, excavating hundreds of fossil metasequoias. The fossils are immaculately well-preserved.

 

“Some of this stuff looks about like driftwood on the beach, but it’s 45 million years old,” Jahren says. “These fossils are chemically preserved at a level you usually would expect to see in something that’s only 1,000 years old.”

 

That’s ideal for Jahren, who studies the presence of isotopes of elements like carbon, nitrogen and oxygen in living and fossilized plants. Isotopes are forms of an element that differ only by the addition of one or more subatomic particles known as neutrons.

Jarhen, the winner of last year's Geological Society of America Donath Medal for most promising young scientist, studies the isotopes to learn more about plants' relationship to weather and climate change. In her group's first major Axel Heilberg results, published in the January issue of the Geological Society’s “GSA Today,” they measured the presence of isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in the fossilized metasequoias.

Jahren notes that other major climatological differences at the time included the lack of a north polar ice cap.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JRdd]

I am sure some would link this to the hollow earth theories, supported by many scientists and adventurers. Admiral Richard E Byrd actually saw a wooly mammoth from his plane, roaming near the edge of what is considered to be the opening to the earth. There are other strange things too, documented over the last couple of hundred years or so, supporting this idea, that there is an interior existence with its own central sun.

 

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[JRdd]

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[theist]

Mankind really hasn't got a clue as what the history of this globe is.Or even the full scope on what is going on around us now.

 

Our sense perception is soooo limited.

 

I don't know about the central sun idea.Sounds strange, but then reality can be stranger than fiction.It's all dream energy afterall, and what is impossible in a dream.

[Guest guest]

Trees have been found in Antarctica also.

Piri reis's map,which shows antarctica free from the ice cover,is very old.

This shows that at some time in the ancient past, both of todays polar regions, were temperate.

I don't know about the inner earth theory,a more likely scenario is the continental shift theory,it states that when the poles become covered with a certain amount of ice,the massive weight shifts the continental plate,displacing the poles,putting a new section of earth at the poles.

 

[Tarun]

Pineapples, Palm trees, Peanuts r growing in Cork County, Ireland.

Anything else beginning with letter 'p'? Perhaps that too.

Admiral Byrd was labelled unstable, not to be heard.

If u speak truth in Kaliyuga, u won't have a leg to stand on.