The Fossil Forests of Joggins: How a Quest for Coal Shaped Paleontology
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Thumbnail Image Credit: Michael C. Rygel via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca... (This is an awesome image of the fossil wall at Joggins, take a look).
The Mi’kmaw called the area Chegoggin, “the place of the fishing weirs.” Chegoggin became “The Joggins,” to the English, then “The South Joggins,” and finally, “Joggins.” This form of haunting is common among place names in Nova Scotia. The original name lies curled inside the shape of the new one, at once destroyed and preserved.
Today, Joggins is a tiny village on the western coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. 315 million years ago, it was an equatorial forest whose ghost would profoundly affect the emerging science of paleontology.
The cliffs below Joggins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Dr. John Calder, who was instrumental in securing that recognition, calls them the “story book of the Coal Age.” It is a book to be read in wonder, but not lightly. To Calder, the cliffs “hold great lessons for us about our shared past and our future together on this changing earth.”
Here and there, embedded high in the face of the cliffs, are what appear to be Grecian columns. The columns are the trunks of fossilized lycopsid trees, kings of the Coal Age forests. Within the layers of rock, 60 ancient forests are still standing. Their trees are upright and hollow, their stone roots reaching deeper than in life. Small creatures are entombed inside the trees, some of the earliest land-dwelling vertebrates. One is Hylonomus lyelli, the first reptile in the fossil record.
After 315 million years in darkness, erosion is pulling them all back into the light. The first hollow tree creatures were discovered in 1852 by the famous Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell and his colleague, Canadian paleontologist Sir William Dawson; but you might equally say that the creatures discovered them, by crashing down onto the beach at the right time.
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Further Reading:
The main source for this essay is The Joggins Fossil Cliffs: Coal Age Galapagos by John Calder books.google.ca/books/about/T...
Another main source, this video showing amazing views of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs by Brian Hebert and the Atlantic Geoscience Society: • Joggins Fossil Cliffs-...
The Fossil Cliffs of Joggins by Laing Ferguson, a guidebook to interpreting the site: books.google.ca/books/about/T...
The Carboniferous: ucmp.berkeley.edu/carbonifero...
Uniformitarianism: Charles Lyell: evolution.berkeley.edu/the-hi...
Reptiles: www.britannica.com/animal/rep...
Which Came First: The Reptile or the Egg?: www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
The Joggins Fossil Center: jogginsfossilcliffs.net
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Chapter 6, “Science red in tooth and claw,” on 19th century geological controversy: books.google.ca/books/about/A...
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That storytelling style was pretty interesting! Well done to the writer!
Nova Scotian here, really cool to see Joggins getting covered on your channel!
I couldn't find a pronunciation guide for Joggins itself. Did I get it right?
You nailed it!
Sweet! That's good to hear.
I've been waiting for a long time! There aren't lots of videos going around. This was refreshing, from New-Brunswick
I’ve lived in Nova Scotia for almost 18 years and never been to joggins. Now I’ll have to check this out!
Worth it* 😊
What a great script! Talented writer indeed.
She's already working on her second one.
I really enjoyed the more "storytelling" style of this one. I'd never heard of this place and it was all new to me.
Omg please make more of these story centered readings. Literally had a brain orgasm
2:15 - Chapter 1 - The forest then & now
4:40 - Chapter 2 - How did the book form
6:25 - Chapter 3 - Reading the book
8:00 - Chapter 4 - Gradualism
10:30 - Chapter 5 - What does each layer represent ?
11:35 - Chapter 6 - Life in the pages
12:55 - Chapter 7 - Darwing & joggins
14:45 - Chapter 8 - Coal
17:25 - Chapter 9 - Debates bout joggins
21:15 - Conclusion
Thanks Quentin and Eric! Really enjoyed the story style of this one!
I love having Eric as a host!
I really liked the style of writing here. Very educational and relaxing at the same time.
I remember seeing something about the cliffs. I found it absolutely fascinating. Scientists would speak of walking the shore week after week then one day they would come back and find a massive skull on the ground that had dislodged itself from the cliff face. Waiting to be found. I love that shit.
Hey eric! Amazing work
Quentin deserves a lot of the praise. Her script is a banger.
Eric your voice is so majestic and awesome!
U did a great video!
Soothing :)
But it's not Simon's voice. No one could quite do it like he could
Only feedback I have: Better audio recording quality needed. A bit tincanny. Other than that, pure gold
I've since narrowed down my audio presets in Audition. But sometimes when the team renders the video, it screws with my audio. Don't know why. I've caught it a couple of times.
Thank you Eric. Great job.
Enjoyed the twist on this one. Definitely made it entertaining and incredibly informative. 👍👍😊😊
Awesome! One of my favorite area to visit, I'm from New Brunswick! I am going for a visit Sunday! 😮😂 Few adits in the area, coal seams and plenty of fossils! Truly beautifull
So this is what Mick Foley is doin now, cool.
😂
That was fantastic 👍
Keep this form of narration up! This was wonderful to listen too.
I’m loving the new mixed format!
Having readers this good is sweet.
Some readings need a different format, reading, touch and what we have available is pretty sweet.
Thanks to the team.
I liked the writing style a lot, and Eric's delivery.
Cool! Love Simon, but glad to see someone new, great job, great script, looking forward to the next one!
History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I definitely enjoy these fresher takes with You or Karl. You have a great voice and a truly superb last name.
This is excellent!! Nova Scotian here; I’ve been there twice. You can take a guided tour of the beach in front of the cliffs with an interpreter who will identify all the fossils you find (you’ll find plenty). Awesome to see on the channel; so well written
Can this writer write all the scientific scripts? They make them sound beautiful 😍
Solid bedtime story for this lil 🪨er, thanks Eric ✨✨✨
Brilliant 👍
Really enjoyed the story, very engaging. Would watch more in thr style
That was fantastic. 👍
I go there all the time. Beautiful place. Lots ro find
That was fun and interesting. Thanks
Love it!!
Good video
That was really good. A very nice change that I would like to see more of. Thank you.
I love the storytelling style!!! Please do more
Hypnotic indeed! Good one
I enjoyed the presentation. The story style was captivating and left me wanting more.
Beautifully presented, very informative, thank you
I think this fits your sound and style the best I've heard from you
Nice.
I've spent quite a few happy hours wandering the beaches along these cliffs. I have some of the fossilized plants from before it became a UNESCO heritage site, but I'd never pick anything from the beaches now. I think it's frowned upon these days.
Now I need to know what happened to Simon being the oresenter of the channel? I do remember him making or at least presenting the show
There's a video on TopTenz about it. I came on board afterward, though I had been a writer across all three channels (kind of sporadically, as I tend to stick to writing fiction).
Simon left about 8-9 months ago
what the hell is a giant slowth?
That's the proper way of pronouncing Sloth.
@@geographicstravel
the proper wanker way of pronouncing sloth.
I like the structure
I see Tomie and Uzumaki... I have those same ones myself
Saving this one to play when im trying to sleep. Damn that monotone is boring. Where the hell is Karl?
I like Quentin
I didn’t realize there were reptiles in the Carboniferous for some reason…
Been gone a while, I forgot Simon was gone. No thanks.
This script format works better for Eric
I'm eagerly anticipating Quentin's next script. :D I'm a storyteller, so getting to read a quality script is pretty exciting.
super creepy how his head keeps moving but his eyes don't....mic bass way to high ...writer seems like he graduated last and still needed a.i help ......very interesting topic.....look forward to watching it somewhere else...
Do something about the video feed. I felt like my eyes was somehow unable to focus every time it cut back to you talking.
always a bummer when simons not narrating
In other news, i now want to see this myself and step back in time.
I'm a science guy and I didn't even know this place existed before Quentin pitched it to us. Now I want to see it for myself.
Whenever you decide to go, let me come with, this would be one of the most incredible things to see in life!
Yay the good host
I miss Simon's cadence, his voice, and his beard
Was gonna make a David Goggins joke but it doesn't translate well via text.
Who the fk is this dude ? Where is baldy beard bloke ?
let me know when you become the host full time, id be more than happy to re-sub
I was surprised that they didn't know what coal was in Darwin's time, especially considering they could see peat and observe the obvious the similarities.
I miss Simon
Just say it. Leave the flowers at home.
Roughly a tenth of the comments are now me and or people responding to me now lol. There you lost a sub and got viewer interaction for the first few hours of your videos release. I hear thats rather good for youtube channels. Its almost as though I stir the pot on purpose post to drive interactions in the comments *gasp*
2 meter millipedes? No thank you
Mmmm no.
Where the fuck is Simon??
He left this channel about 9 months ago and now presents Places, which YOU are subscribed to.
@archstanton6102 last time this channel showed up in my feed Simon was the host. Only subscribed for Simon.
Peace out geographics, ir was a blast.
Unsubscribed for spelling kilometre like that in the thumbnail.
Kilometer*
I think there's bigger problems in the world than linguistic differences lmfao
Seriously. We're an American company. lol I would never expect European writers to change their spelling, why would you expect me to?
Well, there it is. The stupidest thing I've read all week...
Tantrum!! Where is factboiiii, i refuse to listen to this calm guy. He is far to comprehensive and understandable. Subbed, unsubbed. I dont know. I just want to complain
On a serious note i dont mind Eric at all. I kind of have to relearn / tune my brain. But I wish for audiobooks with this voice
People tell me I should record my own audiobooks, but I'm stretched pretty thin as it is. I'd like to do it, I'm just not sure when I'd have time.
Simon's gone and he ain't coming back. Time to get over it. Cheers
Sounds like the script was run through ChatGPT at least once
I'm not a fan of this style. To paraphrase Joe Friday, "Just the facts, please"
So glad we don't get Euro!Trump crap anymore!
THe only kind of history i really like is when humans weren't around
I did Not like the style of this presentation. It reminded me of a History Channel presentation of the discovery of alien space ships under the ice of Antarctica or Nazi bases on the dark side of the moon.
Except everything in this script is true. It's written in the style of a short story, rather than straight facts being spit at your face.
I don't dispute the facts. I just thought the style was wrong. It felt more like a Veggie tales version of one of the parables of Jesus. I don't like it. If you do, I am happy for you.
When a community manager with youtube experience unsubs from your channel ;) get a lil something on the backend
What's with the stupid music
No simon… and unsubscribe
You're missing out on one hell of a script. Quentin is an incredible writer.
Simón was the reason I didn't watch this channel anymore lol
@@geographicstravel I need the seemingly coke fueled hype and tangent fest that is Simon’s disposition. He makes every video of his I watch more enjoyable. *shrugs* I know it comes across as mean, but I found your channel because Simon said hes on it. I subbed watched all the videos that interested me (that had simon in them) and now I think ill go back to the other channels. Im sure you all do great work, but its not going to be for me. Good day.
Bye Felicia. Sad to see you didn't go 7 months ago when he did...
Simon's been gone for quite some time. Time to get over it. Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya. Bye.
not gonna lie not a fan of the storytelling style. i prefer the old style
Oh hell yeah, I clicked on this immediately. 😅
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