Plant Fossils in the Laboratory

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1982, Volume 3

Abstract

This exercise can be used to familiarize students and give them hands-on experience with plant fossils as well as sharpen their powers of observation. It may also be used to bring together interdisciplinary topics relating past events to present day issues.

Keywords:  compression, paleoecology, paleogeography, mold, cast, impression, petrifacation, evolution, paleoclimatology, plant history, coal ball peeling, fossil formation

SUNY, Stony Brook (1981)