Comment on Video: Research team discovers plant fossils previously unknown to Antarctica

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Sat, 05/23/2015 - 12:10am

Video: Research team discovers plant fossils previously unknown to Antarctica

Sometime about 220 million years ago, a meandering stream flowed here and plants grew along its banks. Something, as yet unknown, caused sediment to flood the area rapidly, which helped preserve the plants. Gulbranson splits open a grey slab of siltstone in the quarry to reveal amazingly well-preserved Triassic plant fossils, as if the leaves and stems had been freshly pressed into the rock only yesterday.

 

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