300-Million-Year Old Forest, Preserved Like Pompeii
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 09:02
in Earth & Climate
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...
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