Abstract
![Graphic][1] In recent years, no one has done more to promote research on the famous 407 Ma fossiliferous chert deposits near Rhynie (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) than Nigel Trewin, who died 100 years after the publication of the first of a series of seminal papers on the fossil plants that are celebrated in this issue. Working together with Clive Rice at the University of Aberdeen, Nigel literally reopened the field with excavations and boreholes resulting in particular in a much better understanding of the geology, the processes resulting in fossilization, and the fossil fauna. Much of this work was drawn together in a synthetic volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh published in 2004 that comprised 16 scientific papers on diverse aspects of the Rhynie chert system [1]. This has … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif
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