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| JogginsCommunityView of the Joggins Fossil CliffsJogginsCoordinates: 45xc2xb041xe2x80xb230.78xe2x80xb3N 64xc2xb026xe2x80xb236.85xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf45.6918833xc2xb0N 64.4435694xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 45.6918833; -64.4435694Coordinates: 45xc2xb041xe2x80xb230.78xe2x80xb3N 64xc2xb026xe2x80xb236.85xe2x80xb3Wxefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf45.6918833xc2xb0N 64.4435694xc2xb0Wxefxbbxbf / 45.6918833; -64.4435694Countryxc2xa0CanadaProvincexc2xa0Nova ScotiaMunicipalityCumberland CountyIncorporated1889Time zoneUTC-4 (AST) UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficial nameJoggins Fossil CliffsTypeNaturalCriteriaviiiDesignated2008 (32nd session)Referencexc2xa0no.1285State PartyCanadaRegionEurope and North America | WIKI |
| On July 7, 2008 a 15-km length of the coast constituting the Joggins Fossil Cliffs was officially inscribed on the World Heritage List. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 2 Joggins Fossil Cliffs 3 Recent geologic and paleontologic work 4 World Heritage Site 5 Gallery 6 References 7 External links | WIKI |
| In 2008, the Joggins Fossil Cliffs were designated as a UNESCO natural heritage site. | WIKI |
| The Joggins Fossil Centre is the museum built on the fossil cliff to display the fossils. | WIKI |
| Joggins Fossil Cliffs[edit] | 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 |
| The fossil record at Joggins figures in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and played a role in the Great Oxford Debate of 1860 between Bishop Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley. | WIKI |
| Much of the early work to document the fossil record at Joggins was by Nova Scotian geologist Sir William Dawson (1820xe2x80x931899), who had a close personal and working relationship with his friend and mentor Charles Lyell. | WIKI |
| [13] In 2002, Hylonomus lyelli was named the provincial fossil of Nova Scotia. | WIKI |
| Another vital early tetrapod fossil has been found here, the earliest synapsid, Protoclepsydrops, which is actually earlier than Hylonomus. | WIKI |
| In addition to individual fossils, the Joggins Fossil Cliffs is of interest because it represents a time in Earth's history when a tropical rainforest covered Nova Scotia. | WIKI |
| Slightly more recent fossil finds indicate that these rainforests collapsed quickly, triggering a mass extinction event, the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse. | WIKI |
| Trackways made by the giant arthropod arthropleura are preserved at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs. | WIKI |
| Amateur fossil collectors have also made major contributions to our knowledge. | WIKI |
| For example, Don Reid, a long-time resident of Joggins, donated his entire collection of Joggins fossils to the Joggins Fossil Institute. | WIKI |
| Many of his specimens are on display in the Joggins Fossil Centre. | WIKI |
| In 2009, palaeontologist Melissa Grey was hired as the first scientific curator for the Joggins Fossil Institute (JFI). | WIKI |
| [16] The Joggins Fossil Institute continues to conduct and foster research at the site [17][18] and hosts international paleontologists and geologists and conference field-trips. | WIKI |
| This is a volunteer committee whose mission is to: provide expert and comprehensive advice and support to the JFI on scientific matters respecting the development, conservation and management of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs property, the content of the Joggins Fossil Centre's programs, scientific research related to the fossil cliffs, and scientific issues arising from the site's status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
| The Committee also assists in reporting on the status of monitoring programs and state of conservation of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs property. | WIKI |
| In 2007, a 14.7-km length of the coast constituting the Joggins Fossil Cliffs was nominated by Canada to UNESCO as a natural World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
| Plant fossil with Canadian one dollar coin (26.5mm) for scale. | WIKI |
| Plant fossil Beach, showing Carboniferous stratification | WIKI |
| The Joggins Fossil Cliffs have been termed the xe2x80x9ccoal age Galxc3xa1pagosxe2x80x9d and are the world reference site for the xe2x80x9cCoal Agexe2x80x9d. | 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 |
| Upright fossil trees are preserved at a series of levels in the cliffs together with animal, plant and trace fossils that provide environmental context and enable a complete reconstruction to be made of the extensive fossil forests that dominated land at this time, and are now the source of most of the worldxe2x80x99s coal deposits. | UNESCO |
| The boundaries of the property are clearly defined in relation to logical stratigraphic criteria and include all of the areas necessary to fully display the fossil record of Joggins including the cliff face and foreshore rock exposures, and include both the most fossiliferous strata and younger and older rocks that provide geological context. | UNESCO |
| Some aspects of the legislation, such as for the licensing of fossil collection are cumbersome and would benefit from review, although can be better implemented if site managers are empowered to do so. | UNESCO |