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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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EXPEDITION TO COLORADO FOR FOSSIL INSECTS 201 the Brooklyn Institute may be willing to iindertake a study of the beetles (Coleoptera), of which a fine series was secured. The fossiliferous formations at Florissant are shales forming the bed of a shallow lake of unknown age, but probably Miocene, and long since drained by upheaval and distortion. The climate of the region about Florissant at that remote period, to judge from the character of the fossils, was similar to that of the Gulf
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FOSSIL STUMP OF SEQUOIA TREE NEAR FLORISSANT, COLORADO States at the present time. There was a rank growth of huge Sequoias, long-leaved cotton-woods, Planera, rushes and ferns around this placid body of water. Some of the fossilized stumps of the Sequoias may still be seen near the point where Scudder made his excavations. Insects swarmed in the vegetation and were carried out into the lake by the wind, rain and small streams, and drowned in great numbers. Their tiny bodies sank to the bottom and were gradually entombed in fine ashes, mud and sand. The ashes were of volcanic origin and must have been

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