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300m-year-old forest preserved in ash :’Chinese Pompeii’

The researchers were able to “reconstruct” nearly 1,000 sq m of the forest’s trees and plant distributions. This rare insight into how the region once looked is described in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The excavations sampled three sites across a large expanse that was covered with about a metre of ash. Due to […]