Word: fossilized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeds of the ancient metasequoia, which previously was known only through fossil remains, have arrived at the Arboretum from China and will be planted immediately to preserve the rare discovery...
Geologists, who sometimes attack their work from strange angles, have now been climbing mountains to make a study of undersea rocks. Last week Dr. Norman D. Newell, of New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, was studying fossil seashells he had just brought back from the Peruvian Andes. They told him about the strata (possibly oil-bearing) deep under the Amazon Basin hundreds or thousands of miles away. They also suggested that an ancient ice age once chilled the sea water right across the equator...
...Dick Tracy of the Mesozoic Age. No matter how softly dinosaurs trod millions of years ago, Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, curator of fossil reptiles of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and professor of paleontology at Columbia University, tracks them down and digs out their bones from under the rock layers that hide them. But one dinosaur had always eluded him: the coelophysis, diminutive (3 ft. high, 6 ft. long) but impressive granddaddy of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Brontosaurus and all the other Mesozoic monsters...
...last fortnight Dr. Colbert and his assistant George Whitaker were exploring Arroyo Yeso, a gypsum gulch on Ghost Ranch, near Abiquin, N. Mex. Suddenly Whitaker uttered a cry of joy, rushed to the bank and pointed triumphantly to a small fossil claw. Dr. Colbert had got his coelophysis...
...says M. Chevalier, the mountain was much taller. Snow water from the youthful peak worked its way into the rock, gnawing wells and tunnels and vast, echoing halls in the soluble limestone. Then, as the peak itself eroded away, the channels gradually lost their water supply and became a "fossil drainage system." Another elaborate system, still rushing with water, now drains through the diminished peak...