300-Million-Year-Old Forest Discovered Preserved in Volanic Ash (Mongolia)

300-Million-Year-Old Forest Discovered Preserved in Volanic Ash (Mongolia)


300-Million-Year-Old Forest Discovered Preserved
in Volanic Ash, ScienceDaily, Feb. 20, 2012
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120220161307.htm

'Chinese Pompeii' 300m-year-old forest preserved in ash
BBC News, Feb. 21, 2012,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17117223

The paper is:

Wang, J., H. W. Pfefferkorn, Y. Zhang, and Z. Feng, 2012, Permian
vegetational Pompeii from Inner Mongolia and its implications for
landscape paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Cathaysia.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Published online
before print February 21, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1115076109
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/14/1115076109

Best wishes,

Paul H.