The Joggins Fossil Cliffs is in the news! British and Canadian scientists studying 300 million year old Carboniferous fossils from Joggins, Horton Bluff, Sydney and Europe have concluded that a sudden, global warming-driven breakdown of rainforests actually helped propel the Earth's earliest reptiles, like Hylonomus lyelli which Joggins is famous for, to the top of the era's evolutionary hierarchy. Click here to view the complete article.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Former Joggins Fossil Centre Interpreter Receives Award
Congratulations to Afiqah Mohamad Radzi for winning the Imperial Oil Best Poster Award at the 60th Annual Atlantic Universities Geological Conference (AUGC) held recently at Acadia University. Afiqah is an honours geology student at Acadia and she won the prize for her poster on her honours thesis research entitled "Petrography of stratigraphic units in the subsurface in the Phetchabun Basin, Thailand”. Before returning to school this year, Afiqah spent her summer with us working as an interpreter. Way to go, Afiqah and keep up the good work!
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