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Howard Schorn (retired Collections Manager of fossil plants
at the UC Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley, California)--co-leader
of the Far West Geoscience paleobotany field trip to the Sailor
Flat hydraulic gold mine discussed at this Web page--has co-authored
a great reference volume, entitled A Computer-Assisted Annotated
Bibliography and Preliminary Survey of Nevada Paleobotany. Open-File
Report 94-441B of the United States Geological Survey. For
details on obtaining a copy of this comprehensive paleobotanical
report, Click
Here.
Dr. Diane Erwin (Collections Manager Of Fossil Plants at
the UC Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley, California) wrote
an excellent field
trip article for UCMP. It's a visit to the Sierra Nevada
in search of fossil plants. Howard Schorn also provides a comprehensive
overview of the geology and paleobotany of the Middle Eocene
Chalk Bluffs Flora.
The late Jack Wolfe (passed away in August, 2005) and Bob
Spicer put together an excellent web page devoted to the Climate
Leaf Analysis Multivariate Programe (CLAMP).
This is how one goes about determining paleoclimates from a sophisticated
study of leaf characteristics.
For a general overview of the paleobotany and geology of
the Sierra Nevada and western Nevada, visit Dr. Constance Millar's
Tertiary Vegetation History, which is in PDF
format--you'll need an Adobe Acrobat Reader to access the file.
Read an interview with paleobotanist Dr. Pigg about her
paleobotanical research in the Arizona
State University Research magazine.
For more paleobotany field trips, try these links: Field Adventures: Florissant (a visit to the
famous Late Eocene Florissant Lake Beds locality in Colorado);
Field
Adventures: Big Cedar Ridge (a visit to the Late Cretaceous
Meeteetse Formation in northern Wyoming); Field Adventures: Petrified Forest (a visit
to Petrified National Forest in Arizona to search for fossil
cycads in the Late Triassic Chinle Formation); Fossil Hunting At Oviatt Creek, Idaho.
Dr. Kathryn M. Gregory-Wodzicki of Lamont-Dohery Earth
Observatory Columbia University has several of her excellent
technical paleobotanical papers available for download in PDF
format at her Home
Page; you'll need the free version of Adobe's Acrobat Reader
to access the files.
Dr. R. A. Gastaldo of Colby College, Waterville, Maine,
has an excellent online Paleobotany syllabus available at his
Notes
For A Course In Paleobotany page.
Take a look at some Fossil
Giant Sequoia Foliage From Nevada.
And here are some additional paleobotany resources available
on the Web:
Plant Fossils Of West Virginia; Paleobotanical
Section Of The Botanical Society Of America; Castle
Rock Fossil Rainforest; Hans' Paleobotany Pages; Paleobotany And Palynology Image Gallery; Florida Museum Of Natural History Paleobotany And
Palynology; Boggy's Links To Paleobotany; Paleobotany: The Origin Of Flowering Plants;
Eocene
Amber And Fossil Leaves In Arkansas; Science
Notes: Summer 1998 (early Eocene paleoclimate studies in Wyoming);
Petrified
Wood From Western Washington.
And here's a link to probably the most comprehensive collection
of paleobotany links on the Web: Links For Paleobotanists.
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