Penn researcher helps discover and characterize a 300-million-year-old forest

Thursday, 23 February 2012

Penn researcher helps discover and characterize a 300-million-year-old forest

Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 23, 2012

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 Pfefferkorn and colleagues presents a reconstruction of this fossilized forest, lending insight into the ecology and climate of its time. Pfefferkorn, a professor in Penn's Department of Earth and E

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Scientists Discover Ancient Forest Preserved in Ash
Source: Newsy.com Similar to the city of Pompeii, this 298-million-year-old forest was preserved by ash, making it a time capsule into another world.

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