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WHAT ARE FOSSIL PLANTS?

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WHAT ARE FOSSIL PLANTS?

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Plants are an entire kingdom of life forms, and are the most essential group of organisms in our world. Without plants, all other forms of life would cease to exist. Plant fossils, also, were very important to the evolution of the world as we know it. Fossilized plant remains are responsible for the world’s vast coal deposits and possibly the huge oil reserves trapped in the Earth’s crust. Plant fossils are also important for studying the theory of Continental Drift. Glossopteris leaves, for example, were unearthed in adjacent parts of India and Australia, showing that the habitat of this extinct tree was split apart when the two continents were divided by plate tectonics. Even fossil amber, used as a gemstone in jewelry, is actually fossilized tree sap! Many fossil plants are very collectible and also very beautiful. Museums around the world display fossil plants as a keystone of their Natural History exhibits.

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