Comments on: Eocene Florida Plant Remains = Rethink Local Geology A Little https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/eocene-florida-plant-remains-r/ Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:28:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: bcoppola https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/eocene-florida-plant-remains-r/#comment-498173 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:28:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/18/eocene-florida-plant-remains-r/#comment-498173 Pine Island – unless there’s another one somewhere else in Florida, that’s just off the coast from the Ft. Myers area. Been there. There are some extant shell mounds from the native Caloosa culture preserved there. Not just middens, but were once topped with structures as a way to deal with flooding from storms. It’s also a pleasant day trip with a few good restaurants and the funky artsy hamlet of Matlacha en route from the mainland. Also a nice place for a bike ride.

And now, a nice place to find Eocene pollen if you have a really long drill.

]]> By: dman https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/eocene-florida-plant-remains-r/#comment-498172 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:04:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/18/eocene-florida-plant-remains-r/#comment-498172 CLOBBERING TIME, dawkins – got you… who’s the WINGNUT?
OMENS OF DEATH!!!!

an example and warning …

]]> By: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkqTeNSe-lk7NNw1iq_DKlKvQRg1FB7ySA https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/eocene-florida-plant-remains-r/#comment-498171 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:02:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/18/eocene-florida-plant-remains-r/#comment-498171 Fascinating stuff.

It is very very geeky of me but when I was an undergrad, one thing I enjoyed doing was picking apart pollen diagrams to work out the real structure of the plant life within the vicinity. Perhaps I would have ended up an environmental archaeologist if the lure of the lower palaeolithic hadn’t got in the way.

]]> By: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkqTeNSe-lk7NNw1iq_DKlKvQRg1FB7ySA https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/01/18/eocene-florida-plant-remains-r/#comment-498170 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:57:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/01/18/eocene-florida-plant-remains-r/#comment-498170 Fascinating stuff.

It is very very geeky of me but when I was an undergrad, one thing I enjoyed doing was picking apart pollen diagrams to work out the real structure of the plant life within the vicinity. Perhaps I would have ended up an environmental archaeologist if the lure of the lower palaeolithic hadn’t got in the way.

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