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Showing posts with label Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

A Florissant Fossil for the White City

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  by Steven Wade Veatch   The “Big Stump” at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado is one of the larger petrified stumps ...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

A Communion of Discovery

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 Dedicated to Estella Leopold, conservationist. * Melting ice washed gravels down, burying the mammoth—hiding it through the ages. And I fou...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado: A Place of Change

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 By Steven Wade Veatch In 1965—when I was a boy—I picked up a chunk of petrified wood (about 34 million years old, or Late Eocene age) at th...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Fossils

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By Steven Wade Veatch Mammoth bones, petrified trees, insects trapped in amber, pine pollen, a moss spore, impressions in paper-thin shale, ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

A Tree through Time

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 By  Steven Wade Veatch Thirty-four million years ago on a dismal Eocene afternoon near present-day Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

A Communion of Discovery

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Dedicated to Estella Leopold, conservationist Melting ice washed gravels down, burying the mammoth—hiding it through the ages. And I found...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Timeless Trees at Florissant, Colorado

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The huge petrified Sequoia stumps near Florissant stretch the limits of my understanding. I’m left with only wonder, like a poem I can’t exp...
Friday, July 20, 2012

A Short Note on Fossil Spiders from Florissant

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The order of Araneae (true spiders) are represented as a large and diverse group in the 34.1 million-year-old Florissant Formation. Spiders ...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Fagopsis longifolia: an Extinct Species from Florissant

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Fagopsis longifolia is one of the more common fossil plants found in the Florissant Formation. Located 35 miles west of Colorado Springs, F...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Dryopteris: A Fossil Fern from Florissant

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Ferns are among the fossil plants found in the Florissant Fossil Beds of Colorado . Fossil plants like these ferns are records of prehistori...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

A Short Note On: Fossil Spiders from Florissant

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The order of Araneae (true spiders) are represented as a large and diverse group in the 34.1 million-year-old Florissant Formation. Spiders ...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Aerial Photos Shows Outline of Ancient Lake Florissant

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Just west of Pikes Peak and south of the town of Florissant, Colorado (about 40 miles west of Colorado Springs on U.S. Highway 24) lies a sc...