Study characterizes 300-million-year-old tropical forest preserved in volcano ash
Pompeii-like, a 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China. A new study by University of Pennsylvania paleobotanist Hermann Pfefferkorn and colleagues presents a reconstruction of this fossilized forest, lending insight into the ecology and climate of its time....
Source: PhysOrg - Monday, 20 February
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