Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Joggins Fossil Cliffs' has mentioned 'Carboniferous' in the following places:
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Joggins is famous for its record of fossils from a rainforest ecosystem approximately 310 million years ago, dating to the Pennsylvanian "Coal Age" during the Late Carboniferous Period. | WIKI |
The dramatic coastal exposure of the Carboniferous (also known as Coal Age) rocks, known as the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, are continually hewn and freshly exposed by the actions of the tides in the Cumberland Basin. | WIKI |
Slightly more recent fossil finds indicate that these rainforests collapsed quickly, triggering a mass extinction event, the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse. | WIKI |
Plant fossil Beach, showing Carboniferous stratification | WIKI |
Their complete and accessible fossil-bearing rock exposures provide the best evidence known of the iconic features of the Pennsylvanian (or Carboniferous) period of Earth History. | UNESCO |
Criterion (viii): Earthxe2x80x99s history, geological and geomorphic features and processes: The xe2x80x9cgrand exposurexe2x80x9d of rocks at Joggins Fossil Cliffs contains the best and most complete known fossil record of terrestrial life in the iconic xe2x80x9cCoal Agexe2x80x9d: the Pennsylvanian (or Carboniferous) period in Earthxe2x80x99s history. | UNESCO |