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Title
View of a fossil knobcone pine cone found by workmen while digging a well at the corner of 42nd and Telegraph Avenues, Oakland, in the fall of 1917, 42 feet below the surface, embedded in solid clay. This cone is believed by Dr. Clark, paleontologist, to be between 40,000 and 50,000 years old
Creator
Unknown
Photographer
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bioscience & Natural Resources Library
Collection
Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection
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Description
Location: close study
Identification: exact ground location unclear, appears unknowable
No people present in picture
Type
image
Identifier
fritz_metcalf-442
Subject
Pinus attenuata - Cones
Pinus radiata - Cones
Cones - Pinus radiata
Cones - Pinus attenuata
Fossils
Unknown
Place
Unknown

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