Talk:Axel Heiberg Island

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"rhinoceros-like creatures, soft-shelled turtles, alligators and host of small mammals..."

Are all of these animals capable of hibernation?

No, but as the same paragraph explains, the island was nice and warm in the past, so they didn't need to. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:13, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I work for Basinger.

I'm trying to identify some Juglandaceae fruit he gathered at Axel Heiberg. Looks like hickory, and some may be walnuts.

And yeah, for 30 million year old nuts, they're *very* well preserved. Most are flattened by their burial, but they're not mineralized, and you can pop the two nut valves apart like you can with nuts that exist today.

Petrified trees

The sediments, are they from the impact of Hudson Bay meteorite? I think it was like 13,000 years ago that made rippled effect of bedrock eskers on the western coast of Hudson Bay, and the ejecta reached Alaska, Western NWT, this island, Axel Heiberg Island, burying everything at the same time. This would explain the rapid erosion of coastal areas of Tuktoyaktok, NWT, and Alaska. The sand would be grayish/whitish, in color, like marine sediments.