Petrified Gardens - Saratoga County, NY, USA
Posted by: tatie
N 43° 05.528 W 073° 50.891
18T E 593742 N 4771689
Petrified Gardens are located in Saratoga County, NY, USA.
Waymark Code: WMF2G3
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 08/11/2012
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Petrified Sea Gardens is a National Historic Landmark.
It preserves an area of fossils, called stromatolites in a Cambrian rock layer.
They were constructed by "blue-green algae" on a shallow sea floor that is now exposed. While they were growing, New York and the eastern US lay south of the equator.
Those stromatolites were the first described in North America and remain a valuable teaching aid for college and university classes nationwide.