Whitfield Stump - Lexington, Kentucky
N 38° 02.257 W 084° 30.245
16S E 719039 N 4212929
The Whitfield Stump, located beside the White Hall Classroom Building in the center of the University Kentucky campus
Waymark Code: WMTQHD
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 12/30/2016
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It is a three hundred million year old 'cast' stump weighing 7,000 pounds and measuring 42 inches in diameter. The stump was first discovered when it dropped from the roof of the Clover Fork Coal Co., Kitts, KY and later was given to the University by George Whitfield, manager of the coal company.
This fossil is the preserved stump and root system of a Lycopod tree that lived approximately three hundred million years ago in a swampy forest in what is now Harlan County, Kentucky.
What kinds of fossils are found here:
Lycopod
Admission Fee: no
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