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“There are places I remember …”
Of course there are. There are places that all of us remember. And there are other places that no one remembers, because they were lost long before there were any people. But the Earth remembers.
I spend much of my life asking the Earth about these memories, and this blog is largely about what I have learned. Most of the places I have learned about are ancient shorelines and tropical seas dating from long before the time of the oldest dinosaurs. Much of what you will find here discusses the fossils of ancient life forms and the environments in which they lived, but much is also about me, and about how we learn about the past. And some of this blog is about very little at all. Because like almost everyone else, I am often concerned with the minutiae of my own existence …
Graham Young is Curator of Geology and Paleontology at the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg.
unless otherwise stated, all images on this site are © The Manitoba Museum or © Graham Young; text © Graham Young, 2009
Just returned from my 1st trip to the Manitoba Escarpment, where I also participated in my 1st marine fossil excursion dig, with the CFDC folks in Morden. What a delight. Fell in love with the area, with the dig, with geology and prehistoric life forms, and I long to return. But that’ll be a while, so I started researching the area and stumbled upon your great blog. Thanks. Hopefully I’ll make it to your museum next time.
Thank you for your kind remarks. Yes, make sure you visit our museum the next time you are in this area!
You have a fine, long term view of the topic. Keep in mind that in the relatively shorter term, particularly in Canada, and other recently deglaciated northern parts, the the land has risen by ca. 1000 feet in the last ca.8000 years. I have read estimates far higher than that for Scandinavia. What makes this notable is the admonition in Book I, Chapter 5 of Claudius Ptolemy’s “Geographia” of ca. 150 AD (Stevenson Translation, Dover Edition, 1991)
“Attention must be paid to the latest researches because the earth, in the course of time undergoes change.” Keep up the great work and sharing with us.
Thanks, Carl. We have had the opportunity to see the Hudson Bay beach ridges from a helicopter – they are quite marvellous. I am saving that story for a future post!
Thoroughly wonderful pages.