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Chinese coal miners discover a 300 million-year-old forest preserved in a layer of ash

Michael Allan McCrae | February 21, 2012 | 7:02 pm Energy China Europe Coal 

Chinese coal miners discovered a botanical Pompeii, a 298 million year old forest well-preserved in ash from a sudden volcanic eruption. University of Pennsylvania paleobotanist Hermann Pfefferkorn announced the discovery this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...

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