Science news articles about 'fossil pollen'

... unusual among tropical trees in having a well-studied fossil record, partly because the oil industry uses ... to 18 million years ago, deposits of fossil pollen suggest, Symphonia suddenly appeared in ...

... 663-666. Particles shaped like fossils of small bacteria have been found in old sedimentary rocks ... Neotropical plant families to infer paleoclimate from the fossil pollen record. GSA Today Science ...

Fossil pollen establishes plant's right to spread

... fire occurrences from 15,000 B.C. to the present. Then they measured the amount of plant parts, such as fossil pollen, to figure out what type of vegetation dominated the area during ...

... glacial maximum," he said. On land, scientists can reconstruct the history of a forest or grassland from fossilized pollen or leaves. But kelp do not make pollen, and marine sediments do not preserve ...

... . The study, led by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, uses fossil pollen, charcoal and dung fungus spores to paint a picture of a post-ice age terrain different from ...