History Mysteries #2 - The Sawdust Coast
Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 09:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
History Mysteries #2 - The Sawdust CoastAccording to Peter Freuchen, writing of his travels in Siberia, circa 1936, the tundra coast near Tiksi in the Lena Delta was fringed with logs and the sea bottom contained "hundreds of thousands of years of sawdust". To the best of my knowledge, this remarkable phenomenon - a Siberian 'sawdust coast' - has never been studied scientifically.Peter FreuchenPeter Freuchen was a scientist. However, for much of his life he was known to various people according to the various talents which make him seem like a character from a work of fiction.read more
