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how can there be fossils of green plants in antarctica?
i think that i have made a discovery and i can share it if it is
undiscovered
Green plant fossils (and others, such as fossils of dinosaurs) are already
known from Antarctica. How they could exist has two explanations that work
with each other (the technical term for this is synergy).
- Continental drift
- As the continents move about the face of the Earth, they
sometimes are at the poles and sometimes are away from the poles. There
have been times in the Earth's history when Antarctica, for example, has
been well away from the South Pole. There are a number of answers that bear
on this in our archives; try the MadSci Search Engine.
- Climatic variation
- During the history of the Earth, the climate has undergone both
minor and major variations. During the Jurassic, for example, continental
masses at the South Pole were warm enough to support extensive forests. For
more, see this
MadSci answer by John Christie.
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