Does anyone know of any journal articles dealing with historical world wide forest cover (by historical, I mean from billions of years ago to modern day). By world wide forest cover, I mean a % of land mass that is covered by vegetation. Or, data related to that.
I'm just curious. Thanks!
2007-09-02 17:05:57 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Fossil remains and core drilling samples of trees and vegetation in the Artic and Antartic as well as the huge amount of coal and oil would presume a global forestation at one time. Interestingly, the oldest known living tree---a bristlecone pine tree nicknamed Methusala--- is only around 4700 years old which would coincide with Noah's flood date. Some Biblical scholars think there was a huge amount of pre-flood vegetation covering much if not all of the earth's land mass---some fossil remains seem to bear that out even in desert area's of today as observed by all the oil deposits in the Middle East.
2007-09-02 18:04:53 · answer #1 · answered by paul h 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋