The study reconstructs a Carboniferous rainforest at the largest spatial scale ever attempted. The fossils show that the Earth’s first rainforests were highly diverse and that the kinds of tree ...

The carboniferous rainforest collapse is named after that window of geologic time in which it took place, the Carboniferous Period. carboniferous literally means coal-bearing.

Nowhere elsewhere on the planet is it possible to (literally) walk through such an extensive swathe of Carboniferous rainforest. It was discovered by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from the University of ...

Earth’s first rainforest has been found in an Illinois coalmine, according to research published in Geology.. The 300 million year fossilized forest consists of a mix of extinct plants including ...

Over 750,000 square kilometres of Amazon rainforest have been cleared since 1970 – a fifth of the total. ... Toward the end of the Carboniferous period, around 307m years ago, ...

Yet the abundance of Carboniferous coal is a puzzle. Forests began in the Devonian, the period before the Carboniferous, and have existed ever since.

Carboniferous Swamp Characteristic of the Carboniferous period (from about 360 million to 300 million years ago) were its dense and swampy forests, which gave rise to large deposits of peat. Over ...