Re: 340 million year old caves in Australia

[Phillip Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

The URL doesn't seem to work anymore.  Trust me, it used to work.  The
entire site appears to be down as of 11:45 A.M. PDT.

I'm investigating alternative links to this story.

<pb>
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On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:13:27 +0000 (pd) Phillip Bigelow
<bigelowp@juno.com> writes:
> 
> Thanks to Veigel from Down Undah, here is one URL:
> 
> http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/ps21d,,.html
> 
> The primary source is:
> Australian Journal of Earth Sciences Vol. 53:377-405.  (June, 2006 
> issue)
> 
> If these caves had openings to the surface as early as the 
> Paleozoic
> (that's actually a big "if"), and if the openings stayed connected 
> to the
> surface throughout the Mesozoic, then there could be a nearly 
> complete
> Carboniferous through Recent biostratigraphic sequence of cave 
> fauna! 
> That would be amazing.  The different avenues of study for 
> evolution
> researchers is mind boggling. 
> 
> Apparently, Quaternary fossils have been known from the caves for 
> some
> time.  Now paleontologists just have to dig deeper into the floors 
> of the
> caves.
> 
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> 
> 
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:26:36 +0000 (pd) Phillip Bigelow
> <bigelowp@juno.com> writes:
> > 
> > Does anyone have an academic URL (lacking that, a media URL) on 
> the 
> > 340
> > million year old caves that are found near Sidney, Australia?
> > 
> > Is anyone currently excavating the caves for Paleozoic cave 
> fauna?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > <pb>
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