[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index]

Have Dinosaurs Been Found in the New Siberian Islands (Russia)?



Late Cretaceous alluvial sandstones, siltstones, mudstones, clay, 
and brown coal outcrop along sea cliffs and within the uplands of 
the Derevyannye Hills along the southern coast of New Siberia 
Island (Novaya Sibir Ostrova) of the New Siberian Islands, Russia. 
These strata contain abundant coalified upright tree trunks and logs 
along with leaf prints and other plant debris. The coalified upright 
trunks and logs are so abundant that early explorers and paleobontanists 
referred to the Derevyannye Hills as either the "Wood Mountains", 
"Wood Hills", or "Tree Mountain". 

Does anyone know if any dinosaur fossils have been found in these
deposits?

References to the Geology of New Siberia Island

Dorofeev, V.K., M.G. Blagoveshchensky, A.N. Smirnov, and V.I. 
Ushakov, 1999, New Siberian Island. Geological structure and 
metallgeny. VNIIOkeangeologia, St. Petersburg, Russia. 130 pp.

Kropotkin, P., 1900, Hurst and BlackettReview: Baron Toll on New 
Siberia and the Circumpolar Tertiary Flora. The Geographical 
Journal. vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 95-98.

Klubov, B.A., A.A. Korshunov, and I.G. Badera, 1976, New data on 
coal measures of Novaya Sibir' Island, New Siberian. Transactions 
Doklady of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences: Earth Science Sections. 
vol. 231, no. 1-6, pp. 58-60.

Yours,

Paul V. Heinrich
Baton Rouge, Louisiana