Gilboa fossil forest, Devonian age, New York State: field work 2010
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This video shows palaeobotanical work at Riverside Quarry, Gilboa, New York State, on the famous Gilboa fossil forest (the 'world's oldest forest'). The quarry floor was visible for a few short weeks during work on the Gilboa Dam which is a long way upstream and not visible from this location. The scientific study, by William Stein, Chris Berry (me), Linda VanAller Hernick and Frank Mannolini was published on March 1st 2012 in the journal Nature. An artistic reconstruction of the forest was created by Victor Leshyk (paleovista.com) working with our guidance, for the front cover. This video was shot over the first weekend in June, 2010.
The fossil forest is 385 million years old. The large stumps, which you see at the beginning of the video, were removed during quarrying operations in the early 1920s, and are mostly to be found in museum collections. Some are preserved in public viewing points in the village of Gilboa and the Gilboa museum. The position of the Gilboa trees in the quarry is marked by structures which are largely made up of a mass of roots. There are also creeping progymnosperm trunks, and a single specimen of a large clubmoss.
Please note that the site has been completely re-buried and is not anyway accessible as it is on controlled property.
Thanks to New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Thalle Construction Company, New York State Museum (Albany), Binghamton University and Cardiff University (Wales, uk).
For permissions to use this video you can contact me (Chris Berry) though the website of Cardiff University Earth and Ocean Sciences. - Věda a technologie
I spent many years around the Schoharie and only found out about these fossils a few years ago.
Awsome. I'm going there this summer.
Where in N.Y.? Upstate?
Gilboa, in the Schoharie Valley, just south of Middleburgh
It's a lot more locked up than it used to be.
Look we found 'world's oldest forest'!!! Okay lets bury it so nobody can see it ever again. WTF???!!!
It's under a drinking water reservoir now, they had limited time while the reservoir was dry and the dam was being repaired that they were able to see this section that had previously been underwater. That's why he even says at the start that even the last time it was seen before being inundated in the early 1900s, the quarry floor had been covered in clutter, so this time it wasn't and they were able to map the forest floor in full detail from 390 million years ago in the Middle Devonian.