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katemacquarrie22
Sep 183 min read
Gingko
Humans think in decades, forests operate in centuries, but the land’s timeframe spans hundreds of millions of years. We can read...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 6, 20233 min read
Stories in Sandstone
To me, Natural History is the story our land tells about itself. PEI’s oldest stories are told by our sandstone cliffs and go back some...
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katemacquarrie22
Nov 15, 20232 min read
Sandstone Oxidation
With the change of seasons, my plant and fungus posts are coming to an end and my two popular winter series – PEI natural history and...
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katemacquarrie22
Jul 12, 20232 min read
Walchia Fossil Find
I’ve been checking my favorite coastal sites to see how they’re doing after Hurricane Fiona. As predicted, our sand dunes are recovering...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 26, 20222 min read
Reading Sandstone
I’ve had a lot of questions about green-grey layers in the Island’s sandstone. So today let’s look at two reasons why our sandstone is...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Permian to Present 3: Iron Rock
Welcome to the third edition of “PEI: Permian to Present”. So far, we’ve looked at the Island’s famous red sandstone, learned why it is...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Permian to Present 2: Fossils
In the first edition of “PEI: Permian to Present” we looked at what the Island’s famous red standstone tells us about the environment in...
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katemacquarrie22
Dec 25, 20222 min read
Permian to Present 1: Reading Bedrock
Welcome to the first installment of my new series “Natural History of PEI: Permian to Present”. I’ll be posting these occasionally among...
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