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Parliament Hill In Downtown Ottawa

The Canadian Parliament buildings are contructed from blocks of Tyndall Stone, a dolomitic limestone quarried in Canada's Manitoba Province. It is rich in fossils from the Ordovician Period, dating back more than 400 million years ago.

How Far Back In Time Is The Ordovician Period?

See Geological Time Scale I Made In Html For My Ancient Plants Lecture

Era	Period	MYA	Geologic Time Scale Index Of Wayne's Word Fossil Images Primitive Araucarias In The Palomar College Arboretum
Cenozoic	Tertiary	5-6 10 25 50 64	Silver Sword Alliance: Ancient Tarweed Reaches Hawaiian Islands Santa Rosa Basalt & The Endemic Santa Rosa Brodiaea Dominican Republic Amber (Miocene) W. Indian Locust & Copal Baltic Amber (Shores Of The Baltic Sea) Avian Dinosaurs Survived K-T Mass Extinction
Mesozoic	Cretaceous	65 70 71 90 95 100 135 140	K-T Boundary--Giant Asteroid Hit Earth: Mass Extinction Of Dinosaurs Hell Creek Formation, Mont.: Ficus ceratops = Spinifructus antiquus Sauropod Dinosaur Dung In India With Phytoliths! Metasequoia Fossils Resembling Present-Day "Dawn Redwood" Ancient Flowering Plants: Nymphaeales (Water Lilies) & Magnoliales Ants Oldest Ant Fossils (Evolved From Stinging Wasps 110-130 mya) Araucariads & Southern Supercontinent Called Gondwanaland Origin Of Flowering Plants: Darwin's "Abominable Mystery"
Mesozoic	Jurassic	145 160 180	Santiago Peak Metavolcanics: Owens Peak Jet: Carbonized Remains Of Ancient "Araucariad" Forests Gingko: Ancient Gymnosperm Plants Of Jurassic Park
Mesozoic	Triassic	200 225 245	Pangea: A Giant Supercontinent Continental Drift (Plate Tectonics) Petrified Forest NP: Once At Latitude Of Cen. Amer. Taxonomy Issue Osmunda Fern Fossils Resembling Present-Day Species In Canada
Paleozoic	Permian	250	Cycads & Conifers Flourish
Paleozoic	Carboniferous: Pennsylvanian Mississippian	300	300-360: Dominant Ferns, Horsetails, Club Mosses (Lycopds), Scale Trees (cf. Sigillaria), Primitive Gymnosperms, Early Cycads, etc. Time Of Extensivive Swamp Forests & Massive Coal Formation.
Paleozoic	Devonian	400	Rhynie Chert, Scotland: Horneophyton & Rhynia--Earliest Land Plants (Primitive, Leafless, Spore-Bearing Plants). Very Similar In Appearance To Present-Day Hornworts (Division Anthocerotophyta: Anthoceros)
Paleozoic	Silurian	430	First Known Land Plants
Paleozoic	Ordovician	450	Marine Algae Dominant
Paleozoic	Cambrian	500	Algae & Invertebrates In Seas: Trilobites Dominant

Wikipedia.org by LMCoelho

Close-up view of limestone block from the Canadian parliament building. Although it is barely visible in image, the overall shape outlined in white box resembles an ancient ammonite (phylum Mollusca, class Cephalopoda).

Alexandra Bridge Spanning Ottawa River near Parliament Hill.

Interesting Fruits Between Ottawa and Quebec

Lovely fruits at roadside market between Ottawa and Quebec City. The blueberry pie at our farewell dinner at Gibby's 5 star restaurant in Montreal was the best fruit pie in my entire life!

Physalis peruviana, sometimes called cape gooseberry, a distinctive fruit of the tomato family (Solanaceae) enclosed by a papery calyx. Along with other garden vegetables, it is grown in the rich Canadian soils of delta regions. It belongs to the genus Physalis, along with ground cherries and Mexican tomatillos (Physalis ixocarpa), the source of green salsa. It does not belong to the gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae) or cherry family (Rosaceae). Cape gooseberry is native to tropical South America and was grown by settlers in the Cape of Good Hope region. The Hawaiian name is "Poha." Many delicious meals on this trip were garnished with tomatillos.

Delicious fish soup in Quebec City garnished with orange tomatillo.

Natural Detergent From Dried Fruits Of Soapberry

Dried soapberry fruits (Sapindus saponaria) for sale at roadside market. Saponins in the leathery fruit wall (pericarp) foam when agitated in water. This is a natural, organic laundry soap.

Wayne's Word Article About Saponin-Producing Plants