Carboniferous forest soundscape, speculative
A composed soundscape imagining the Fossil Grove forest: wind in giant club-mosses, insects, water. Clearly speculative.
325 to 320 Ma · Fossil Grove, Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland · CTF-PAL-000006
This is a speculative rendering
T5 Speculative. A creative or speculative rendering, clearly labelled as such. A creative or speculative rendering, clearly labelled as such. It is not a recording of the past.
- Method
- Soundscape composition
- Built from
- Lepidodendron stumps, Fossil Grove, Glasgow T1 Recorded
- Confidence
- No evidential confidence. This is an artistic rendering built from cited modern analogues.

Composed soundscape of wind and water. Placeholder audio.
About this record
Composed from modern analogue sounds guided by what is known of Carboniferous forests. No animal in it is a reconstruction of a specific species. It exists to help visitors imagine the place and is labelled T5 so it is never mistaken for evidence.
Connections
Reconstruction of
- Lepidodendron stumps, Fossil Grove, GlasgowT1 Recorded325 to 320 Ma · link T5
The soundscape imagines the forest these stumps grew in.
Chronos Terra soundscape notes.