First-Ever Amber Discovered in Antarctica Shows Rainforest ... - Yahoo News
21 hours ago · Believe it or not, you're standing in West Antarctica. Scientists in Germany and the UK have now discovered amber there for the first time – the fossilized 'blood' of ancient coniferous trees that once grew on Earth's southernmost continent between 83 and 92 million years ago. Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber ...
First-Ever Amber Found in Antarctica Unlocks Secrets of
1 day ago · The researchers found the amber in a sediment core recovered from 3,103 feet (946 meters) beneath the Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica. The amber—the first recovered from Antarctica ...
90-million-year-old amber discovered in Antarctica reveals ... - MSN
A new discovery has closed a significant gap in the global map of amber finds: for the first time, amber has been unearthed in Antarctica. This discovery, led by scientists from the Alfred Wegener ...
Scientists Find Amber Fragments in Antarctica for the First Time
1 day ago · Credit: James St. John / CC BY 2.0. Scientists have made a historic discovery, finding amber fragments for the first time in one of Earth’s coldest places, Antarctica. This discovery, led by Dr. Johann P. Klages from the Alfred Wegener Institute and Dr. Henny Gerschel from Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, closes one of the last ...
First amber find on the Antarctic continent provides new insights …
2 days ago · The findings are published in the journal Antarctic Science. "The analyzed amber fragments allow direct insights into environmental conditions that prevailed in West Antarctica 90 million years ...
First amber find on the Antarctic continent | ScienceDaily
2 days ago · Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.
The First Amber Found In Antarctica - Astrobiology
2 days ago · Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg have just released a paper in the journal Antarctic Science, in which they describe the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.. Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber ...
“Pine Island Amber”: Scientists discover world's southernmost amber …
2 days ago · The coordinates of the Pine Island amber discovery are 73.57° South, 107.09° West, marking it as the southernmost find of yellow-brown stones made from fossilized resin in the world. The ...
Ancient Amber Found in Antarctica Reveals Polar Forest
2 days ago · They have named the discovery “Pine Island amber” after its locality in the Pine Island Bay of the Amundsen Sea Embayment – at 73.57° South, 107.09° West, to be precise. “The analysed amber fragments allow direct insights into environmental conditions that prevailed in West Antarctica 90 million years ago,” says first author Johann ...
First amber find on the Antarctic continent | EurekAlert!
3 days ago · Macrograph of an approximately 70 µm amber extracted from the lignite in the sediments of the MeBo core PS104_20-2 9R. Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were ...
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