350000 years ago, just beyond the western edge of the icy #Schwarzwald, #spring has come to the #mammoth steppe. A raven flies over a group of steppe mammoths enjoying a cold bath in the Oos river, while a #Megaloceros grazes on some choice plants growing on the riverbanks. With the harsh winter in retreat for a few months, a flock of greylag geese migrates north, a buzzard hunts, and a small pack of wolves watch a herd of steppe #bison and some roe deer.

#paleoart #IceAge #Pleistocene #MyArt

The #glacier went that-a-way

The #striations on this face of the #Ediacaran (ca. 560 Ma) #Squantum Member of the #Roxbury #Conglomerate were probably left by the #Pleistocene #Laurentide ice sheet, which retreated ca. 12 ka. The striations have the right orientation, from northwest to southeast.

The Squantum Member was once interpreted as a (#glacial) #tillite. The most common contemporary model is a peri-#Gondwana #debrite (#turbidite).

My #photo. #Boston #geology #NewEngland #fieldTrip

Recently my Field Studies in #Geology class went to the Hausz Brothers Quarry in #Wisconsin to observe the #Pleistocene Lake Scuppernong sediments and #Ordovician bedrock strata of the #Platteville Formation. We collected #fossils while we were there, and this was my first time! Here are a few of the fossil #invertabrates that I collected from the Ordovician strata. This includes, from left to right, up to down: a #Crinoid, a #Cephalopod #nautiloid, a #Brachiopod and #Bryozoan, and a #Gastropod.

Atlantic white cedar #swamp, #Wellfleet, #CapeCod, #Massachusetts, USA
#AtlanticWhiteCedar (Juniper family, Chamaecyparis thyoides) grows in low areas on the US east coast. This swamp is probably in a kettle left by the #Pleistocene #glaciation, not interdune. These aren’t climax trees because the seedlings can’t grow in shade. These trees were harvested as rot-resistant timber by colonists, leading to extensive deforestation on the cape.
#photograph #woodland #landscape #fujifilm 12 mm

Atlantic white cedar #swamp, #Wellfleet, #CapeCod, #Massachusetts, USA
#AtlanticWhiteCedar (Juniper family, Chamaecyparis thyoides) grows in low areas on the US east coast. This swamp is growing is probably in a kettle left by the #Pleistocene #glaciation, not interdune. These aren’t climax trees because the seedlings can’t grow in shade. They were exploited as rot-resistant timber by colonists, leading to extensive deforestation on the cape.
#photograph #woodland #landscape #fujifilm 12 mm

One of the largest ground sloths, the elephant sized Eremotherium laurillardi, which ranged throughout most of South America, Central America and the southern United States until just about 11,000 years ago
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This one is for my licensing library. You can also see a figure showing the manus of this taxon, quickly recognized by the presence of only two claws

#eremotherium #sloth #groundsloth #fediart #giantsloth #paleoart #conceptart #digitalart #digitalartist #illustration #pleistocene #art

Heathlands. This is Tunbridge Wells Common -- a fairly rare patch of heathland in SE England. Heather Calluna vulgaris and an extensive patch of large anthills (Yellow Meadow Ant presumbly) near the exposed and weathered sandstone rocks from the #Pleistocene, top of the high weald -- 'laid down at bottom of a vast freshwater lake'. #ants #wildflowerhour

Fort Hill, #Roxbury Crossing, #Boston, #Massachusetts,#USA
Fort Hill is named for the fort (not this tower!) erected on it between the confrontation at Concord in April 1775 and British evacuation of Boston when Washington et al. moved guns onto #Dorchester Heights in March 1776 (independence “declared” in July 1776). The hill is capped by the Roxbury Conglomerate (#Neoproterozoic, ~600 Ma), which sports rakish #Pleistocene glacial striations. #history #geology #Fujifilm #glacial #NewEngland

Fort Hill, #Roxbury Crossing, #Boston, #Massachusetts,#USA
Fort Hill is named for the fort (not this tower!) erected on it between the confrontation at Concord in April 1775 and British evacuation of Boston when Washington et al. moved guns onto #Dorchester Heights in March 1776 (independence “declared” in July 1776). The hill is capped by the Roxbury Conglomerate (#Neoproterozoic, ~600 Ma), which sports rakish #Pleistocene glacial striations. #history #geology #Fujifilm #glacial #NewEngland

Fort Hill, #Roxbury Crossing, #Boston, #Massachusetts,#USA
Fort Hill is named for the fort erected on it in the interval between the confrontation at Concord in April 1775 and British evacuation of Boston when Washington et al. moved guns onto #Dorchester Heights in March 1776 (independence was “declared” in July 1776). The hill is capped by the Roxbury Conglomerate (#Neoproterozoic, ~600 Ma), which sports rakish #Pleistocene glacial striations. #history #geology #Fujifilm #glacial #NewEngland

Pleased :-) my paper on two stray hippo bones from the Waveney Valley (East Anglia, UK) has been accepted for publication @ Geological Society of Norfolk, with a review of local fossil vertebrate localities.
#Pleistocene #geology #palaeontology #Norfolk #Suffolk #hippopotamus

🦴 Do you know what #Zooarchaeology means?

Learn more about recovering, analysing and characterising human remains dating back to the #Pleistocene era, from @Katerina__Douka of @MPI_GEA.

🎧 or 👀 how 👇

🇪🇺#EUfunded #FrontierResearch #denisovan https://youtu.be/sMVZgdeyZxw

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1610962040239329280

Pleistocene glacial striations on Devonian and Neoproterozoic rock in New England. Savin Hill, Middlesex Fells, and Mt Monadnock. See captions for details.

#rocks #glaciology #Boston #MiddlesexFells #MountMonadnock #sedimentary #Medford #Neoproterozoic #Devonian #Pleistocene

#aenocyon #dirus #direwolf #canins #macropredation #megafauna #pleistocene #groundsloths

Look Up!

#thylacoleo #megafauna #paleoart #illustration #art #pleistocene

The North American, #Pleistocene 'stag-moose' Cervalces scotti. This close relative of the modern #moose had antlers with a particularly complex shape, and its skull suggests that the muzzle was less developed than in the modern moose. I have based the face here on that of juvenile moose, which have an intermediate condition between a typical deer and an adult moose, with a less overhanging muzzle. #palaeoart

The Extinctions is on Mastodon!

For those of you who don't know us, we are a website dedicated to writing articles about the #Pleistocene and #Holocene #extinctions as well as other contemporary #Palaeontology

We post new articles on the first day of every month, and will promote it here along with additional content.

We have tackled an abundance of topics so far, ranging from the European Pleistocene extinction to the evolution of the dromedary. Check it out at:

https://www.theextinctions.com/

Drone footage of the West Mesa of Albuquerque this cold November morning. The West Mesa is an escarpment of Pliocene-Pleistocene gravels left by the ancestral Rio Grande.
#drone #Pleistocene

A rare example of a Carboniferous black chert glacial erratic with crinoid debris & rugose coral, from ploughsoil at Long Melford (south Suffolk, UK).
Likely to originate in the Eyam or Monsal Dale Limestone Formations (Brigantian) of Derbyshire - some 180 miles away from Melford!
#Carboniferous #Pleistocene #geology #palaeontology

A Mastodon #introduction from me.
Active in #geoconservation and #Pleistocene #geology & #palaeontology research in East Anglia region, UK.
Background in #museums and #heritage #interpretation.
Philosophical interests in Husserl's #Phenomenology and #Schopenhauer's metaphysics. My politics are Paineite and Green.
"We have it in our to begin the world over again" said Paine, and with #ClimateChange beginning to bite, we absolutely must !!