The Quarry
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| Address | Shrewsbury SY1 1JA, United Kingdom |
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| Hours | Open 24 hours |
| Phone | +44 1743 281010 |
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| ID | 2338103 |
About The Quarry
The Quarry is the main recreational park in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire, England. The park was created in 1719 and encompasses 29 acres.
Where is the The Quarry
Stone-skimming: 'How I became one of the best in the world'
... This time, she said she hoped to become the first woman to hit the back wall of The Quarry at the Easdale - 63m (206ft) away from the starting point...
Can ‘enhanced rock weathering' help combat climate change?
... As a cliff, or piled up in The Quarry, the basalt weathers very slowly...
Star Wars Andor filming in Dorset quarry cancelled
... Filming for the Star Wars series started in the UK in May 2021, with lead actor Diego Luna and stormtroopers Ms Churcher added: " The coast and cliffs along this stretch of the coast, including The Quarry, can be unstable and naturally liable to landslips and falls - particularly after extreme weather including heavy rainfall and hot, dry periods...
Body of Newbold teenager missing since February found in quarry
... The 17-year-old was known to have previously gone swimming in The Quarry at night...
The hidden dangers of summertime swims
... One pulled him on to a small island in The Quarry and started to perform CPR until the emergency services arrived, but they were all too late...
Boy, 16, dies after swimming in abandoned quarry in Appley Bridge
... His body was later recovered from the water at The Quarry near Wigan...
World's oldest fossil trees uncovered in New York
... The researchers have found fish fossils on the surface of The Quarry...
World's oldest fossil trees uncovered in New York
An Archaeopteris root system at The Cairo fossil forest site
The earliest fossilised trees, dating back 386 million years, have been found at an abandoned quarry in New York .
Scientists believe The Forest they belonged to was so vast it originally stretched beyond Pennsylvania.
This discovery in Cairo, New York , is thought to be two or three million years older than what was previously The World 's oldest forest at Gilboa, also in New York State.
The findings throw new light on the evolution of trees.
What did they find?It was More Than 10 years ago that experts from Cardiff University , UK, Binghamton University in the US and the New York State Museum began looking at The Site in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains in the Hudson Valley .
Since then, they have mapped over 3,000 square metres of The Forest and concluded The Forest was home to at least two types of trees: Cladoxylopsids and Archaeopteris.
A third type of tree has yet to be identified.
Palaeobotanist Dr Chris Berry from Cardiff University is a co-author of the
"This is the oldest place where you can wander around and map out where fossil trees were standing back in The Middle part of the Devonian era. "
Researchers say they also discovered very long, woody roots that transformed the way plants and soils gather water.
"It's a very ancient forest from the beginnings of the time where The Planet was Turning Green and forests were becoming a normal part of the Earth's system," said Dr Berry.
It's understood The Forest was wiped out by a flood. The researchers have found fish fossils on The Surface of The Quarry .
How does this help us understand The Planet 's past?The Point In Time that the fossil trees date to marks a transition between a planet with no forests and a planet that is largely covered in trees.
Dr Berry says studying The Site can give us a better understanding of how trees evolved and how they draw down carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.
"We're well aware at the moment that having forests is a good thing and burning down forests and deforestation is a bad thing.
Prof Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal Holloway , London says there's No Doubt this is the earliest fossilised forest that we know of.
"It may well be that in The Future , something even older pops up - palaeontology is full of surprises!
"But for the time being, this is incredibly exciting. "
forest, fossils, palaeontology
Source of news: bbc.com
