A 22-million-year-old petrified mangrove forest found in the Panama Canal
by Bob Yirka , PhysOrg
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The paywalled paper is:
Martínez, C., Pérez-Lara, D.K., Avellaneda-Jiménez, D.S., Caballero-Rodríguez,
D., Rodríguez-Reyes, O., Crowley, J.L. and Jaramillo, C., 2023. An early
Miocene (Aquitanian) mangrove fossil forest buried by a volcanic lahar at
Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology, p.112006.
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Yours,
Paul H.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)