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Geological Magazine; May 2008; v. 145; no. 3; p. 443; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756808004421
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LONG, J. 2006. Swimming in Stone. The Amazing Gogo Fossils of the Kimberley. 320 pp.

Fremantle: Fremantle Press. Price A$ 29.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781 921 06433 3.

Douglas Palmer

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Swimming in Stone is John Long’s very readable personal account of his encounter with the remarkable fossil fish of Gogo, along with a history of their discovery and their palaeontological importance. Since 1940, forty or so Devonian fish species have been recovered from nodules found around the remote Go Go Station in the Kimberley region of northwestern Western Australia. The carbonate nodules developed in muddy basinal deposits on the seaward side of the extensive tropical barrier reef of the Canning Basin.

The nodules developed around the rotting remains of many different kinds of fish but especially armoured . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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