Wiki Wednesday

Time to learn something!

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. Click on "Random article" in the left-hand sidebar box.
3. Post it!

Here's today's:

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is located in a mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak and holds spectacular remnants of the earth's prehistoric life. Huge petrified redwoods and incredibly detailed fossils of ancient insects and plants reveal a very different Colorado of long ago. Almost 35 million years ago, enormous volcanic eruptions buried the then-lush valley and petrified the redwood trees that grew there (See Thirtynine Mile volcanic field). A lake formed in the valley and the fine-grained sediments at its bottom became the final resting-place for thousands of insects and plants. These sediments compacted into layers of shale and preserved the delicate details of these organisms as fossils. The Florissant Fossil Beds were set aside as a part of our National Park System in 1969.

Cool.

Comments

[Mark]

Petrified redwoods? Those things are like 1000 feet tall, what are they afraid of?

[Karan]

Vancouver Quadra

Vancouver Quadra is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1949.

Within the boundaries of this riding are the University of British Columbia and the western portions of the affluent West Side of Vancouver.

Voters within Quadra have tended to elect centrist candiates, which is an exception to the province as a whole where politics has tended to be more polarized.

When I do this, I get more Canada articles than anything else.

[Ocean]

Yeah cool. A few years ago I got to go with hubby on a job. The site was a remote closed area of an army base. Where I found really unusual rocks. Asking the man in charge if it would be ok for me to keep a few. He said yes and informed me, those are not just rocks. They are peices of petrified trees. Wow to my amazement, I was even more happy to have them.