Tosa protects piece of geologic history: City takes steps to safeguard prehistoric reef, deemed national landmark.

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: March 7, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Annysa Johnson

Mar. 7--Wauwatosa -- Embedded in the bluff above W. State St., between the stately homes of the Washington Highlands and the factories and stores below, is a little-known remnant of Wisconsin's geologic history, so significant it's been designated a national historic landmark.

What looks like mounded outcroppings of rock, all but buried under years of underbrush, are in fact the fossilized remains of a prehistoric reef -- an ecosystem much like today's coral reefs -- that thrived during the Silurian Period, some 425 million years ago, when much ...

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