[Rockhounds] A 22-million-year-old petrified mangrove forest found in the Panama Canal

[Paul]

A 22-million-year-old petrified mangrove forest found in the Panama Canal
by Bob Yirka , PhysOrg
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-million-year-petrified-mangrove-forest.html

The paywalled paper is:

Martínez, C., Pérez-Lara, D.K., Avellaneda-Jiménez, D.S., 
Caballero-Rodríguez,
D., Rodríguez-Reyes, O., Crowley, J.L. and Jaramillo, C., 2023. An early
Miocene (Aquitanian) mangrove fossil forest buried by a volcanic lahar at
Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology, p.112006.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018223006247

Yours,

Paul H.