| P number: | P521512 |
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| Caption: | Rock specimen of sandstone with plant remains. Cockenzie, Midlothian. |
| Description: | The sample is a red-coloured sandstone containing prominent dark carbonaceous plant remains. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number EMC 2697. These are likely to be the fossil Stigmaria, which represents the roots of lycopod trees. They have a surface pitted with irregular spirals of rootlet scars. The longest are 40 feet in length. This specimen from Cockenzie is Carboniferous in age. The plant remains indicate that the rock would have formed in a shallow water terrestrial environment, probably a fluvio-deltaic environment. Plant remains are very common from the Carboniferous, a period when huge forests grew in tropical swamps and deltas. Trees were quite different from today, they were mostly clubmosses and horsetails, conifers and seed ferns. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 184.83 KB; 1000 x 775 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Fossils |
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