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| Tango01 | 17 Apr 2020 10:40 p.m. PST |
…near the South Pole. "Once upon a time, there was a swampy rainforest near the bottom of the world. Buried sediment extracted from the seafloor off West Antarctica contains ancient pollen, fossilized roots and other chemical evidence of a diverse forest that flourished millions of years ago, less than a thousand kilometers from the South Pole. The sediment offers the southernmost glimpse yet into just how warm Earth was during the mid-Cretaceous Period, between 92 million and 83 million years ago. By analyzing traces of vegetation in the sediment, researchers reconstructed climate conditions at the site. Average annual temperatures in the forest were about 13° Celsius, with summertime temperatures reaching as high as 20° or 25° C, the team reports in the April 2 Nature…"
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| tabletopwargamer | 18 Apr 2020 6:03 a.m. PST |
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| JMcCarroll | 18 Apr 2020 6:38 a.m. PST |
Buy West Antarctica land! In about another 92 million years it will be rain forest again. |
| Tango01 | 18 Apr 2020 11:18 a.m. PST |
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