ANCIENT FOSSILS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1923, Page 8

ANCIENT FOSSILS

REMAINS IN GREENLAND. M. La.uze-Kosh, the Danish explorer who recently returned from a four years’ expedition in Northern Greenland, is exhibiting in the Mineralogical Museum at Copenhagen a wonderful collection of 4000 fossils and other prehistoric relics obtained during his journey in the far North, states a. correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” In a tract of a sea. bottom in Washington land in N.W. Greenland he found tropical coral-reefs which, with a number of other fossils, testify to violent eruptions on the surface of the earth in the morning of 'dime. Measurements show that Greenland is still .moving—ll yards westward every year. Many of the finds are unique in geology. They date from a. period of 50 to 400 million, years ago. Koch has found articles from the Cambrian period hitherto unknown. Most of the specimens in the collection Iroin the Arctic Ocean have family connections in the Pacific Ocean, right down to the Coast of China. On the Humbolt Glacier —the largest glacier in the world. 70 miles 1 t-1 1 i fr.ii rl -• ■» » *1 1 I O’ VP 1

broad—he found m a layer of gravel some strange wooden sticks sticking out of the gravel, and there being no trees so far north, he and his Eskimos began digging. ami found a Kayak (canoe). This Kayak must have belonged Io one of the first, inhabitants of Greenland, who thousands of years ago buried it in order to protect it from the packing of the ice in the .winter. The canoe contained numerous finely made articles ol whale and seal bone which the Eskimos of the present day did not know at all.