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300 million year old fossilized forest discovered under coal mine in China
- nhebb 15y agoIt's too bad they just show a reconstructed image of what the forest looked like. I would really like to see what the fossilized remains of an "almost perfectly preserved 298 million year-old forest" looks like rather than an artist's rendering.
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- jws 15y agoThe journal article supporting information has pictures. http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2012/02/15/1115076109.DCSupplemental/pnas.201115076SI.pdf http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2012/02/15/1115076109.DCSu... … don't despair at the little line chart, scroll down.
- libraryatnight 15y agoWhen they described it as being like Pompeii my imagination might have gotten the best of me and expected too much :) Very cool photos nonetheless
- Mithrandir 15y agoHere's the direct link to the original article in case you're interested: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/14/1115076109 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/14/1115076109
- shingen 15y ago300 million years... now that's an impressive timeline
- itsmequinn 15y agoI guess researchers dubbed it, "the whole of the article from line 10, word 7 through the end?
- Shanewho 15y agoHa, I know.. I couldn't tell if it is "Pompeii" or "Pompeii of the Permian period". I hate that professional articles have so many typos in them these days.